RE-START

Its been a good half year since I've made any inroads into my practice and motivation. Then out of the blue while walking around Empire Mall (Subang Jaya), I found a small music school called Beethoven Music offering saxophone classes. I live nearby so having a location that's easy to get to IS A BIG DEAL for me. Imagine rushing to class, in a bad jam, tired from work, and you forgot to bring something. Oh well...

Back to the music school. Its run by a sweet Korean lady (an expert in clarinet), so I'm quite confident of an efficiently run, clean environment and has a well thought out teaching process. The classes are once a week, 45 minutes each (15 minutes theory + 30 minutes class) at RM70/class. Damage is RM280/month. There were 2 saxophone tutors at the time I signed up.

They allow a trial class to potential students to judge the tutors, environment, etc. It is chargeable, by the way.

In my 1st class, my tutor recommended a Grade 1 theory book, meant for "Young Musicians". Its back to basics for me, for the theory work. I found this to be relatively fun. Reading notes, timing, rests, homework and so forth. Then we did some breathing exercises, techniques, tips and tricks. Very refreshing indeed.