Micek Music

-- I will only be teaching the first week of July (7/2-7/6). There will be no lessons conducted during the rest of the month. Lesson payments should be made out for the amount of one lesson plus the $15 per student recital fee . Normal service will resume at the start of August. Enjoy the break. -- The next student recital is  Saturday evening, July 7  in the recital hall at CSUEB. Group 1 begins at 6:30pm, Group 2 begins at 8:00pm. -- Here are the 4 students who completed the end-of-the-year  Theta Music Trainer  challenge: Alex, Jonathan, Jacob, and Kaitlyn T. Jesse

-- My teaching schedule will be as usual in June until the final week of the month. There will be no lessons on the following days: Monday, 6/25 ; Tuesday, 6/26 ; Thursday, 6/28 . This means that most everyone (excluding my Sunday students) will have only 3 lessons in June. Contact me if you have any questions.  -- The final  Theta Music Trainer  challenge for this year is different for each age group among my students. Here is the criteria, to be completed by the end of June: Elementary grade (K-5th) students - complete  Level 1  for all Theta exercises Middle school (6th-8th) students - complete  Level 5  for all Theta exercises High school students - complete  Level 10  for all Theta exercises -- The next student recital will be  Saturday evening, July 7  in the recital hall at CSUEB. Save the date. -- The Song of the Month for May is "It Will Rain" by Bruno Mars. Have a happy day, Jes...

-- Lessons during the month of May will be uninterrupted, save the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, 5/28. No lessons that day. -- The final  Theta Music Trainer  challenge for this year is different for each age group among my students. Here is the criteria, to be completed by the end of June: Elementary grade (K-5th) students - complete Level 1 for all Theta exercises Middle school (6th-8th) students - complete Level 5 for all Theta exercises High school students - complete Level 10 for all Theta exercises The top Theta Music achievers for the month of April were: Aditya, Emma S., Alex, Allyn, Jonathan, P.J., and Rachil. -- The next student recital will be  Saturday evening, July 7  in the recital hall at CSUEB. Save the date. -- The Song of the Month for May is "Secrets" by OneRepublic. Have a happy day, Jesse

Sit through four student honor recitals, hand out programs, re-arrange chairs, shepherd wayward parents & families, decipher a succession of crazy accents, spar with a fellow teacher who comes back from her lunch break to find you manning her previous post and insists that your reason for being there is not true and that in fact you are not a teacher (all this eliciting untold rage within you), become disgusted by all the formality, lament how the adjacent simultaneous recital always concludes before yours, shake your head at the handful of student performers showing up with winter gloves on their hands, wish to never hear Bach's "Minuet in G" again, refuse to become entwined in the trash-talking about how many misspellings have appeared in the programs, unexpectedly find yourself up on stage at the end of the 8-hour day unwrapping senior medallions and plaques to hand to people you only vaguely know, act as the stage manager pulling items on and off stage between per...

-- There will be no lessons during the spring break week of April 9th through 15 . I will be teaching on the Easter holiday of Sunday, April 8th. The rest of the month's schedule is as normal. Email me if you have any questions.  -- Here are the  Theta Music Trainer  exercises I'd like students to work on in April: Melody  --  Paddle Tones Harmony  --  Flash Chords Harmony  --  Chord Drops Sound  --  Vocal Match The top Theta Music achievers for the month of March were: Alex, Emma S., Carissa, Jonathan, Christopher, Aniruddh, Jacob, & Kaitlyn T. -- I will have C.M. results packets to hand back to students who participated in the program this year by the middle of April. -- The next student recital has been booked for Saturday evening, July 7 in the recital hall at CSUEB. Save the date. -- The Song of the Month for April is "California Girls" by The Beach Boys. Have a happy day, Jesse

I must have corrected 60 theory tests today. It was a grind, but I'd rather work than loaf. The full day of work today fulfilled half of my obligated two work days for the Certificate of Merit program this year. Working at Transfiguration Church in Castro Valley was a pleasant change. The room we theory test correctors were situated in had many windows, which contributed a more cheery outlook to the proceedings. Our regular correcting room in the music building at Chabot College has no windows, which can make an occupant start to feel stir-crazy after being sequestered for hours within. I enjoyed the venue change. The teacher sitting directly across from me for most of the day at one point uttered this memorable line: "This student of mine scored 91%... the same score as last year. Another mediocre result." Is this fantasy? Am I a participant in this madness?  Jesse

-- My teaching schedule for March will be uninterrupted. I do have a couple conflicts due to my performance schedule at the end of the month, but I will communicate these to students individually. -- Here are the  Theta Music Trainer  exercises I'd like students to work on in January: Melody  --  Melodic Drops Harmony  --  Harmonic Drops Harmony  -- Number Blaster Sound  --  Channel Scramble The top Theta Music achievers for the month of February were: Emma, Alex, Katie, P.J., & James -- Here are the CM dates for the next two weekends: * Theory testing will be conducted on the weekend of March 3 & 4. ** Performance evaluations will be held on the weekends of March 3 & 4 and March 10 & 11.  -- The Song of the Month for March is "Stronger" by Kelly Clarkson. Have a happy day, Jesse