Comments on: Junior Primary Pianist

By: Susan M

Susan M — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:49:09 +0000

I wish most ward organists would play faster.

By: meems

meems — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:49:02 +0000

Kaimi, your son is awesome! When I play primary songs, I speed up, miss notes, and pause when I’m not supposed to.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:33:53 +0000

jimbob, BCC has always had a payroll. We’re enormously wealthy from our heavy site advertising and the thousands we make daily from Dialogue. As for trying to poach bloggers, well, we’ve done that since day one.

By: jimbob

jimbob — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:29:33 +0000

Wayne Rooney, why did you switch from Everton FC to Manchester United?

The easy answer to that one is money. The only two English teams that could afford Rooney are ManU and Chelsea.

Is this an oblique way of telling us that BCC has a payroll now and it’s trying to poach bloggers?

By: JM

JM — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:34:33 +0000

Kaimi,

I wish I could have seen this in action! Many, many times I’ve almost engaged the flux capacitor on my piano as I’ve increased speed from verse to verse.

Do you have a metronome? They helped me learn to keep an even tempo as I practice.

By: CS Eric

CS Eric — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:53:53 +0000

I’m a few years older than Son1 (well, okay, a few years older than Kaimi, too), and while I’ve managed to control the tendency to start playing faster while I’m accompanying a congregation, I still find myself having to hold back while accompanying soloists and when playing my own piano solos.

I’ve had varying degrees of success getting my students to actually play the primary songs and hymns they have learned. What’s the secret to getting them over the initial stage fright?

By: peetie

peetie — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:38:32 +0000

My ward just lost our Sacrament meeting accompanist; she only knew one tempo. Didn’t matter if it was “Reverently, Quietly,” or “There is a Green Hill,” it was played Vivace! I always just about lost it. It was so funny to me. I swear she must have practiced with the metronome a good 6 or 7 clicks too fast.

Of course,she probably played like that because she’d sat through meetings where people like my teenage-self had accompanied every song so slowly, due to lack of preparation, that the speakers didn’t have any time at all. And the poor bishop was a narcoleptic, so he always had to get jabbed in the ribs to let him know I’d finally crawled to the finish of the hymn.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:24:31 +0000

kaimi, why did you switch from t&s to bcc?

Wayne Rooney, why did you switch from Everton FC to Manchester United?

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:01:39 +0000

I was 17, and it was my last day in the ward; priesthood meeting. I volunteered to play for the first time. I guess I figured I wanted to leave with a bang. I did “The Spirit of God,” which you can have breathing difficulty with even when it’s played normally. Of course, I ended up playing it about as fast as I possibly could. By the end of the song, the bishop turned slightly and revealed his face, which was a shade of red roughly matching the power tie he was wearing (he was also bald, and had a really saucy smile where his eyes would turn into tiny slits, if that helps you picture it). He turned around quickly to face the assembly and just lost it (which, of course, was contagious). We had to wait to say the invocation.

By: matt w.

matt w. — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:29:38 +0000

kaimi, why did you switch from t&s to bcc?