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How getting expert help for your IELTS can make a huge difference
In February this year my husband bought me piano lessons for my birthday. I had played years ago and got to a reasonable level but was mostly self-taught apart from two short periods where I had a piano teacher. I had always wanted to play well, but at the time I was able to manage what I needed to do with the piano skills I had (accompany the children in my class when I was a primary teacher, play to relax, help my own children with their music in the early stages etc.) and had little time for lessons.
Over the past ten years I have hardly played at all but have kept saying I would like to take lessons and play better. So, imagine my surprise when I received a series of lessons on that Mornington February.
Although it was a lovely gift, I did, however, feel very apprehensive.
• What if I was really bad and couldn’t improve?
• What if the teacher was shocked at my awful playing?
• What if I couldn’t even play at all anymore?
• And what if my husband had wasted his money?
In the end I made the call to book the first lesson. I should say that I did know the teacher as she had been my daughter’s piano teacher and I also knew that she specialised in adult students, many of whom had never played before at all, so in many respects my fears were completely unfounded – nevertheless I still had them!
I had my first lesson and realised that there were so many things that I had been doing for so many years that were stopping me from really progressing with my piano playing and in just one lesson I discovered so much that I could work on that would help to improve my style, technique and overall performance.
My teacher is amazing, she hears and sees the tiniest of mistakes and is able to focus on the details that will get me to where I want to be. She also told me that I had really good musical instincts and could be a good performer! I need not have worried and I know that I am in really good hands and that as long as I do the practice (which I have to admit I don’t always do as well as I should) then I can do really well.
It struck me that I am in a similar position to you with your IELTS.
Especially if you have learned a lot of English over the years and also spent a lot of time working on IELTS but are still not getting the scores you want. My desire to learn the piano is probably not as important as your desire to get your band score but the principle and the process is similar.
Without expert help I was unable, for many years, to progress – yet with an expert teacher I realised in just 45 minutes, many of the things that were stopping me from making good progress. It could be that you have also gone as far as you can go on your own and it’s time to find the expert help you need that will make sure you understand what you now need to do to get your score once and for all!
At the moment I am in Turkey with my family taking some time off to relax and spend time together. I have just seen my husband swim a few lengths of the pool and I think he could benefit from some swimming lessons😀
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