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Originally Posted by wodin
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It is very rare for anyone to be hired under the Education in lieu of experience clause.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'd love it to be so in the Netherlands, but atm, it doesn't seem like it.
Now for a real rant.
I love Bach's music, but I also hate it... when I want to play it myself. I wonder how I ever learned
"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" at the organ as a kid. At some point I played that piece as a warmup... (although I never, ever managed to finish the whole thing without at least one mistake). Even now, after having been out of Bach for over 15 years, I can still play big parts of this piece, from memory.
However, I want to get into Bach (and some other classical music) again, at the piano this time... and because I've played popular music for the last 5-8 years, I decided to start at the beginning.
So now I'm playing
"Minuet in G Major", from "First lessons in Bach." I played that as a kid when I was 8 years old, so it shouldn't be a problem now, should it?
Well... playing?
*BUTCHERING* is more like it. I'm murdering it. If anyone hears the practicing, I'll probably end up in jail. I can play (organ) pieces from memory and convert/rearrange some popular pieces from my organ arrangement onto the piano, live, that are multiple times more difficult than this.
WHY can't I play that Minuet while sight reading it? Oh, the right hand is no problem, but as soon as the (very simple) left hand comes in, it's *poof*: all goes to hell.
After you master a Bach piece, it seems to play itself, but it takes always takes six weeks to get the first three lines down. Why is that? Even with a simple one such as this?
And on top of that, I misplaced the book. I can't, for the life of me, find it right now. I only used it a few days ago.
(Oh, and it sounds as if it's composed by Disney... I get a distinct "dance piece for the princess' wedding' feeling by it. Maybe they even used it as such. Maybe it's because it reminds me of
"Lavender's Blue", which is used in the Cinderella 2015 movie... although Lavender's Blue isn't even a minuet. The funny thing is that I actually *can* play that piece. edit: although not the Cinderella version, which is more difficult than the one I've known for a long time.)
edit: found the book. It was actually in my work bag. I must have put it in there last Sunday, accidentally mixed together with some papers I took to work.