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Post by edcat7 on May 22, 2012 22:01:37 GMT
I've just been told by my liuqin teacher that his student visa has run out (he graduated 5 years ago) and must leave the country. He has one more week.
He has known about this quite a while but accepted me as a student. Naturally I'm absolutely gutted having bought an expensive liuqin and zhongruan.
Does anyone know of a liuqin/zhongruan teacher in the UK?
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Post by edcat7 on May 23, 2012 2:24:24 GMT
All is not lost. He is willing to teach me via skype. I will pay into his bank account in the Uk.
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Post by xindi on May 26, 2012 23:27:12 GMT
Wow. That was really naughty of him. Have you tried the Chamber of Commerce in Gerrard Street? They have noticeboards for tuition there. Hard to imagine no one else would teach such fascinating instruments in the whole of the UK. If your skype is anything as crackly stalled as mine, you will learn nothing lol. I learn nothing  |
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Post by edcat7 on May 27, 2012 0:38:10 GMT
I am feeling quite pessimistic at the moment. I'm also begining to doubt the liuqin was as dear as he charged. (told you I was pessimistic). I have no receipt.
He told me there might be other zhongruans players out there in the Uk, but they are typically students who have to leave when their studies are over.
I'm looking for other teachers and Skype is my last and perhaps only option. I'm giving him my digital voice recorder so he can email me my lessons if skype becomes too unclear.
If there were a demand for liuqin or even zhongruan tuition then he would being teaching at SOAS.
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Post by xindi on May 27, 2012 0:58:08 GMT
Goodbye voice recorder. Hope it wasn.t expensive.
He ummm...wasn't exactly honest the first time.
Your liuqin is superb...albeit rather too challenging for a nonplayer to grasp the subtleties and details of it.
Have you tried learning from youtube?
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Post by Flolei on May 27, 2012 6:48:12 GMT
Well, for language exchange it is SUPER. It works really well, as if we were both together in the same room.
But for music, I really wonder if someone has good experience with this. For beginners I can't imagine how it can work, because the teacher needs to correct physically learner's position, to show him with his own hands how to do it.
But for further levels, it can be great.
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Post by edcat7 on May 27, 2012 7:15:48 GMT
Goodbye voice recorder. Hope it wasn.t expensive. He ummm...wasn't exactly honest the first time. Your liuqin is superb...albeit rather too challenging for a nonplayer to grasp the subtleties and details of it. Have you tried learning from youtube? My thoughts entirely. Note 5 on the second string should sound exacty like 5, open first string, but it doesn't. Only after angling the bridge does it sound remotely like it. That shouldn't happened on a quality liuqin. To put it another way, a D on my C dizi sounds exactly like a D on my D dizi. I think together with my voice recorder, learning from Skype is not impossible. I have a good foundation. |
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Post by edcat7 on Jun 4, 2012 23:22:49 GMT
I just had a taste of my first lesson via skype today. It is possible but only just. If it isn't impossible then no matter how difficult it's still possible. I wouldn't recommend it to a complete beginner though.
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Post by valdae on Jun 15, 2012 1:57:41 GMT
Good to see you have a shot. It may be a bit difficult but it beats having no teacher.
I'm playing at a summer camp tomorrow - the last day for the kiddles. It's a Harry Potter themed camp, very cool. And I was asked to attend as my alter ego, Eppito de Luna. It should be a lot of fun, and I get to leave work early!
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