: False dawn?
No longer completely convinced by Shylo; the warm-up was once again severely lacking in variety of exercises yet not in duration, and I just don't think the lessons generally are sufficiently productive, just going too slowly compared to Gemma's (which I feel were excellently paced).
Chris is obviously in prime position to exploit this, and I know he'd be a damned sight more productive, but at the cost of constraining me. And it's not as if Shylo isn't, for she seems to be taking my lowest note as A2 or Bb2, and thinking I have an inability to sing much lower. I'm going to prove her wrong there on Friday, I severely hope... she's claimed to be open to suggestions and change, and this will be her test. If she fails it, the four-week run I am committed to will be my last, and The Search will resume in January.
In fact, I've already been 'casting' for it; Chris and Rosalind will return, along with at least two new contenders - Kate and Stephanie, who are both music students as Gemma was (that'd presumably mean lessons on campus again).
And there's a possibility of no winners this timeon Takeshi's Castle. The benchmark on utility and cost is Gemma, Shylo's more expensive and possibly less useful, and I remember being unconvinced that Gemma's utility/cost ratio was sufficient. Which should be enough incentive to leave Shylo if she does not improve, and unless the other teachers - who are ever-so-slightly cheaper than Gemma, though in Chris's case only with a bulk-booking discount - are any better (a trial lesson may help, but Shylo's flattered to deceive since hers), I shall decide to simply teach myself. Remember, there is this book, and I have since purchased it...
That would clear a lot of financial headroom, for various uses. Could simply save it; could pursue a totally new activity; could make more ethical food purchases; could consider formal composition lessons, something I'd previously not been convinced about the utility of. Remember, I am still conceptualising this spending as the money that the typical student would spend on alcohol.
No longer completely convinced by Shylo; the warm-up was once again severely lacking in variety of exercises yet not in duration, and I just don't think the lessons generally are sufficiently productive, just going too slowly compared to Gemma's (which I feel were excellently paced).
Chris is obviously in prime position to exploit this, and I know he'd be a damned sight more productive, but at the cost of constraining me. And it's not as if Shylo isn't, for she seems to be taking my lowest note as A2 or Bb2, and thinking I have an inability to sing much lower. I'm going to prove her wrong there on Friday, I severely hope... she's claimed to be open to suggestions and change, and this will be her test. If she fails it, the four-week run I am committed to will be my last, and The Search will resume in January.
In fact, I've already been 'casting' for it; Chris and Rosalind will return, along with at least two new contenders - Kate and Stephanie, who are both music students as Gemma was (that'd presumably mean lessons on campus again).
And there's a possibility of no winners this time
That would clear a lot of financial headroom, for various uses. Could simply save it; could pursue a totally new activity; could make more ethical food purchases; could consider formal composition lessons, something I'd previously not been convinced about the utility of. Remember, I am still conceptualising this spending as the money that the typical student would spend on alcohol.