春は恋愛する季節! ぢゃないよ。
ビートルズクラブ-Beetles Club-とでも名づけちゃえる生徒たちとの関係。それは、カブトムシをあげたり交換したりして育てる関係・・・。
春は恋愛する季節! ぢゃないよ。
ビートルズクラブ-Beetles Club-とでも名づけちゃえる生徒たちとの関係。それは、カブトムシをあげたり交換したりして育てる関係・・・。
Ryoko Fujiwara has come to OK studio and started to offer her lessons to most of the vocal students from January this year.
She has an outstanding career as both a vocalist and a voice instructor. After graduated from Tamagawa University (voice major), she released her first album from Sea Bird Records and has recorded some albums and singles on different labels. On the other hand, she has been performing on a large number of live music stages not only domestically but also internationally, especially in Cambodia and US; in New York, she performed on her own live stages while studying high-level vocal performance skills under Brvon Neal and Serina Miyazaki.
The vocal class students of our school tended to rely on sheet music even at Happyo-kai, our annual concert, that's because the former instructor in charge always taught them by using sheet music until last year; however, Ryoko seldom uses sheet music while teaching, she just uses karaoke downloaded to iPhone. I've never seen pop and/or rock music vocalists look at the sheet music on their stages, they always look towards audience. I do want the vocal students not to read the sheet music at least on stage.
by Ko Ito
アーティストとしても大活躍の藤原綾子さんが今年からヴォーカル科の先生として定期的に来てくれることになった。
http://ameblo.jp/immusic/theme-10088975555.html
http://ameblo.jp/inosryo/
ヴォーカル科の女子中学生たちはポップスやロックばかり歌うわりにはステージでおとなしいのが残念だった。今後は今までの先生に鍛えてもらった音程の良さも活かしつつ、ステージでもっと積極的に聴衆にアピールするパフォーマンスを学んでほしい。僕などはレベッカの世代だから、バンドのヴォーカリストというとNokkoみたいにステージ上で飛び跳ねて踊るイメージがある。https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTXS-CJMX4 なかなかあんなまねはできないだろうけど、ステージ上ではスターになって輝いてほしい!がんばれ中学生!
井藤好
A new 2016 entering student whose first language is English started to take the piano lessons January, and his mother who perhaps doesn't speak and write Japanese well asked me some questions about the fees of OK studio piano class and I answered them. The following Q and A are based on the chat we took in English using LINE App.
Q: Hello sensei, thank you so much for your advise. I am sorry for not checking earlier, but my kids have a christmas party they have to go to on Saturday the 12th and we leave for ●● (her home country) on the 19th. I think it makes sense to start in January. So finally can we book 3.45 for ○○ (her son's name) on Wednesday afternoons from January? Please confirm sensei and thank you for your patience.
A: I understood what you said. I agree with you on the whole. ○○ can have his lesson from January, 3:45-4:15 every Wednesday, and I'd like to know what date he will take the first lesson.
Q: Thank you sensei. Can he start on the 6th Jan?
A: Yes, he can. I book him on Wednesday 6. Please get in touch anytime if you have any questions or need some help.
2015 had gone, 2016 came.
Q: Happy New Year sensei! ○○ (her son's name) is looking forward to the lesson! Sensei, may I ask again about the fees? There is one at 2,000 per session and another pacakge 10,000. How many sessions does the latter cover?
A: A 30-minutes lesson costs 2,000 yen. A 60-minutes lesson costs 3,000 yen; however, if you take a 60-minutes lesson four times a month, all you pay is 10,000 yen. The latter covers 4 sessions spending 60 minutes each. This is a monthly payment system.
Q: Sensei, we would like to have the 10,000 per month course as my son is really eager to improve his piano skills. Do you have another 30 minutes slot for him on Wednesday afternoon or Saturday afternoon?
A: I am available at 3pm on Saturdays. Would you like to shift today's lesson to Saturday 9? I will be able to offer a 60-minutes lesson from 3pm every Saturday this month, 9, 16, 23 and 30.
Q: Yes. That would be great. Could it be possible to have the lesson on the 30th moved to today 6th (30 min as he has been looking forward to it and 27th the other 30 min as we are going to skiing on the 30th)?
A: I am sorry but you cannot devide a 60-minutes lesson into two 30-minutes lessons in the monthly payment system.
Q: I understand. Can you accommodate him today for a 1h lesson instead of the 30th?
A: I am very sorry but other students' lessons occupy before 3:45 and right after 4:15. However, I can offer a lesson 5:15-6:15pm.
Q: OK Sensei, we will take the 5:15 slot. Thank you.
A: I am glad to hear that it is convenient for ○○ to have a lesson 5:15-6:15 today instead of 30th.
Q: Thank you for arranging sensei! See you soon!
A: My pleasure! Thank you for his entering the piano class!
What's the Monthly Payment System of Our Piano Class?
The monthly payment system requires the students to fix the lesson day of the week. For instance, once you decide to take the lesson every Thursday 4 times a month, basically you cannot change the dates except when you are sick or you have some school event or some accident unavoidable.
If you often need to change the lesson dates, it is appropriate for you to take the lessons one-by-one basis, though each lesson costs 3,000 yen an hour. In this case, you don't have to take the lesson 4 times but at least take it once a month.
by Ko Ito
長く通ってくれた一人に小林潤平くんがいる。たしか、小3か小4の時に音楽理論や理科を勉強に来て、算数・数学を経て、高3まで英語を受講していた。
今は立教大学の3年在学中だけど、ワーホリでカナダに行った休学期間がなければ4年生のはず。そんな彼から、先日、突然、連絡が入った。
「クラウドファンディングで世界一周をするので、自分のその企画について賛同されたならご協力、アドバイスをください」ということだった。
いやいや、生来の出不精で旅行にあまり関心のない自分が、世界一周に何のアドバイスができようか!?
(彼のアジェンダはこちらのリンクに書いてあります。http://jumpeikobayashi.hatenablog.com)
そう思っていたが、会ってみると思いのほか話し込んでしまい、企画にいろんな提案をしてしまった、汗。実現しないとカッコ悪いので提案の内容はここには書かないけどね。
20代にはその頃にしか嗅げない空気の香りがあって、その香りが自分がこれから生きていくべき方向の道案内をする、ように僕は思う。けっこう動物的な時期だよな。五感を研ぎ澄まして世界を感じているんだ。なら、自分の五感を信じて行動してみるしかないだろう。
就活しないで世界一周 てか!
そんなことやって何になる、馬鹿らしいと人に言われるような活動の中にも、やった人だけが見つけられる宝石みたいな物があって、それがその人の人格を形作り、個性の輝きになるんだよな。
ところで俺の嗅覚はどうにかならないか?食事が楽しめないぞ。鼻炎スプレーはあまり使わない方がいいらしい。
井藤好