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Elton Joel RW2 2'25
With apologies to them both. A rock piano solo without lyrics.
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Elegy RW2 2'25
Many, many parts to weave and balance - needs ensemble skills, even though it's for solo piano.
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Introduction | Groundhog Day Students | "Whatever Students" | Phantom Students Bookless Wonders | The Bulldozer Chatterbox | Mannequins | The non-practicer
The Arguer | Painful Parents |"Can't do" students | Checking the final score
Type 1: Groundhog Day Students
These students leave you with the uncanny feeling that this week's lesson was exactly the same as last week's lesson...mostly because it was exactly the same. There's no forward progress. 
The things that were bad last week are still bad. The things that were good are still good, but they're not better.
And that F# that you've circled three times already gets yet another loop around it, until you can eventually use all these concentric ellipsis to date the commencement of the piece, like age rings on a tree.
Sometimes it's because they don't practice. Other times it's because they simply don't take in your feedback at each lesson. Most often it's a combination of both—but whatever the cause, the end result is soul destroying. By all means, be creative and enthusiastic and try to end the Cycle of Tedium, but in the words of W.C. Fields "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...but then for heaven's sake quit. There's no use in being a fool about it."
A) That's exactly what this student is - all the time (10 points)
B) There are a few lessons where we make progress, but... (6 points)
C) It's an occasional issue (2 points)
D) This never happens (0 points)