Yesterday, I was working with a student on a piece that ended with a repeated pattern ascending by octaves each measure. As we looked at the section and he played through it, I asked him if he could help me describe the movement from one measure to the next. After a few seconds of intense thought, he turned and with a huge smile blurted out:
"A cocktail!"
After I explained that the term was actually octave, not cocktail, we went on with the lesson, but every time an octave appeared from then on, he'd get a mischievous look in his eyes and mention the "cocktail."
What's the silliest thing your students have come up with lately?!
Many octave changes has the same effect as a cocktail. "I feel like a retard at the end of the song." "What?" I said.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment BusyB- yes- the rit. can be the source of many jokes ;)
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