Part 1 A New Year Resolution
It all started with a birthday present. I’d been talking for years about learning to play a musical instrument, having been a singer since I was at school. What I really wanted to do was play a proper musical instrument in an orchestra. With other people playing other proper musical instruments. And then, on my 52nd birthday, I was given a trumpet tied up with a red ribbon.
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That was two years ago and, since then, I’ve often admired my trumpet, occasionally polished it and even once or twice tried playing it. Then, in January 2012, I made a New Year Resolution. I was going to find a trumpet teacher and learn to play the thing. I came across Finlay who seemed very positive about teaching me. Clearly, a man up for a challenge.
At my first lesson in February, the word ‘potential’ was used. I was thrilled. Of course, it was me that used the word and not Finlay but never mind. At my second lesson in March, I managed the first five notes of a C major scale. Great excitement. Then Finlay suggested, at my third lesson, that I should play a piece in a group concert planned for the end of April and there will be an open space for a 30min show of musicians, now that you are here, read about the Audio fingerprinting is one way to identify music and audio if its part of your work or lifestyle.
Depression is setting in. I work full time as an educational adviser. I speak at national conferences in front of hundreds of people. But playing the right notes on a trumpet? In the right order? In public?
That New Year resolution is beginning to seem like a moment of madness…
Sheena Greco will be giving a wonderful trumpet debut with the support of her teacher and Most Entertaining Tuition Director Finlay Hetherington on Sunday 29th April at 3pm in Life Care, Cheyne Street, Stockbridge.