• Sophia

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Ah, I'm very glad you realized the error of your ways - don't let it happen again 😃 The level scale is one WieWaldi created and you need not worry - it only applies to the blues course. You are a bloody beginner because you haven't finished the 16 lesson course yet..... so is iternabe. I just finished it and upgraded myself to total beginner. I'm sure WieWaldi can provide the whole list of levels... and once we reach all the way to "eternal beginner", we can continue being a bloody starter. Or bloody novice. Or bloody something (never bloody intermediate though, that is for Serious Students) ðŸĪŠ

Simba's picture, here is the complete picture and some context... it was just before supper time and he was playing super cute to make sure he was being noticed 😃


Oops cross posted with you WieWie 😃 There you go! He generously upgraded you to total beginner too!

    Sophia The level scale is one WieWaldi created and you need not worry - it only applies to the blues course.

    No no no no.
    No.

    Roger, TC and Bart - to name a few - never took this Blues course and they never finished it. Are they bloody beginners because of that?!? Come on.
    You graduate whenever you finished a milestone. A book. A course. A chopin etude. Whatever you call a milestone. But a method-book and a YouTube-playlist-course definitely count.

    Sophia Oops cross posted with you WieWie 😃 There you go! He generously upgraded you to total beginner too!

    Yes! And you, Sophie, you are a True Beginner. I know, it doesn't sound too flattering, but you are what you are. 😁

        Haha ok ok! I surrender... again. But all those people that you mentioned... I believe we might even refer to them as Intermediate... maybe even... gasp! Advanced?! 🙇‍♂ïļðŸ™‡ðŸ―‍♀ïļðŸ™‡ðŸŋ

          Sophia Exactly. Advanced... for sure advanced. Or a professional intermediate, if you want. And none of them attended our beloved Blues Piano for Beginners course. You can't claim Blues piano is the only way to step up that career ladder. There are many career ladders out there, or staircases. Some prefer to take the lift. Or a turbo lift if they are annoyingly talented and learn at supersonic speed.

              Oooh, the Easy Blues course starts with one of my favourite tunes. Hit the Road Jack - move over, Ray Charles! Here I come!

              I've seen Ray live, Nov 17th 2001. It was in a small townhall, probably 200 guests and I was about 20 meter away from him. But I doubt he had seen me 🙁

              Most impressive on that show wasn't Ray himself, the show was on his last days an as old man. It was his foregroup and accompaniment: three black rnb singer ladies in their best age with amazing voices. Similar to the accampaniment ladies of this video. Except, they weren't in black and white and voices were much more present. Although the dresses had a very similar cut, but silver instread of grey.

              Ray himself wasn't that long on stage, the ladies made the evening. And it was a wonderful evening! ðŸ•ķïļ

              Wow!!!!!!!!! Lucky you!!!!!!! 😍 My husband told me (many times) how he visited Louis Armstrong live when he was young. Same, on his last days as an old man and in a small setting. He was lucky to have the best seat in the house and experienced the full charm first hand. Now I'm jealous of both of you 😅

              WieWaldi There are many career ladders out there, or staircases. Some prefer to take the lift. Or a turbo lift if they are annoyingly talented and learn at supersonic speed.

              Well said WieWie! 😁 Sometimes I feel like a tortoise as I struggle to climb a single rung of the ladder, but then I remember the fable about the tortoise and the hare and feel slightly better. (Although I don't think the hare was moving at supersonic speed. Sigh.)

              "Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." (Final line from Now,Voyager, 1942)

                Hehehehe......... ahhh that tortoise 😄
                Smarter, better looking, happier, and got there faster. What's not to like 🙂

                Of course I much prefer us making the journey together... finishing at the same time!

                Turtles are only fast when cheating

                  WieWaldi Turtles are only fast when cheating

                  No, turtles are fast when they get some support with the heavy weight that they are carrying!

                  *
                  ... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...

                    8 days later

                    Sophia ...And we're completely poisoning poor Kaydia's thread.... she must think she landed in the madhouse.

                    You are right - we have this thread for the quack quack...

                    After the turtles have finished teasing the cats (and rabbits), I want to say I am stuck in the Blues lessons. Only 5 more days and then there are the recitals. Meaning, I have to get the Country Blues flying and learn the Frisco Blues, too. Both are very easy, don't expect something special. Only thing, I still don't know what Blues is for which forum.

                    But at least, I get the first two in the 40-ish pieces a year challenge. *proud*

                        WieWaldi I get the first two in the 40-ish pieces a year challenge. proud

                        Nice! I'm looking forward to hearing them.

                        I learned the left hand of Hit the Road Jack and I'm slowly adding the right hand blues scale. I think we'll both be a total beginner for a long, long time 😝

                            Oh yes. The total beginner state will be there for a long long time. Especially if I spend time learning pieces instead of attending the course. On the other hand, a successful 40 pieces a year challenge will be graduate me one level higher as well. ðŸĪĐ

                            Wait - you aren't a total beginner anymore. You are already beyond. 😞

                            Sophia I learned the left hand of Hit the Road Jack and I'm slowly adding the right hand blues scale.

                            You know what? It cost me 10 minutes to re-learn the left hand and 10 more for the RH chorus + verse. Ok, not as error free as in my video, but still. Twenty minutes to get it goin again. 💊

                              Whooo hooo! I am error free with just the left hand. Just before I had to take a break, I started to add the right hand, nothing but the blues scale.

                              Today I went back to that briefly, but the left hand loses track quickly. I can't wait to add actual smooth licks because the blues scale isn't very pretty with the pattern.... but first I need to cement it a little further before moving on with more complicated stuff.

                              Right. On that LH, the BS sounds like BS.

                              6 days later

                              It might be not useful now. But I don't wanna be alone with that:

                              I just jammed along the good ol' Blues shuffle LH in C, and then a melody appeared in my head,
                              I tried it - wrong.
                              ......I tried again - better.
                              .............Tried again - perfect!
                              .....................And it sounds!!!
                              Okay, it is just a small line, but I feel like

                              <Hoping, I remember tomorrow>
                              And the recital pieces are calling!

                                WieWaldi So have you begun improvising now WieWie?!? Impressive! That means that you're now a composer! 😃

                                "Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." (Final line from Now,Voyager, 1942)