Taking the lesson

March and April 2005
It has past 2or 3 months after I got the first violin.When I joined a party, I was often asked to play a violin by my friends.

"Hey, show us your violin, and play something!"
"Hehehe, OK, don't regret."
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"Ooouf, pretty bad."
"I told you!!"

I knew my playing was still not good at all.I was having fun just playing what I want to play, not practice so much.But I started to feel maybe I should take proper lesson.
Otherwise my skill will not advance so much...Because you know, practicing something just by ourselves is pretty boring and we get lazy little by little. And we can't brush up techniques so much.But taking lesson means we have to show our playing to a teacher and we should show some progress after every lesson, right?

I decided to take a lesson, but as I mentioned few times, my place sucked. Of course there's nobody playing violin around me, and of course there's no teacher for violin!!
So I looked for an information of somebody teaches violin. And I found just 1 possibility. It was a private school managed by "Kawai Music". Kawai Music is famous as a maker of piano and violin. And it had a campaign which offers a violin course for adults! Yes! This is perfect!

But the thing is this lesson was taken place in capital city of prefecture where was muuuuuch away from my town. It was 120km(75miles) away, it takes about 2 hours by car. Going and coming back take more than 4 hours!

But I had no choice. That was an only one possibility. Why not?! I applied to join that school right away. As a lucky thing, I used to go to that city pretty often by business. So I decided "From now on, every Monday is a business trip day to the capital city!" Hehehe^^;)
Since the company was pretty small and I could decide all my schedule by myself. That was lucky for me.