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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
The attitude has existed among some students long before the word became a teen rallying cry that sums up the sentiment. "Whatever" students are those who are too cynical, too streetwise—and 
often simply too dull—to allow themselves to become enthusiastic about anything. Lessons become an exercise where the best you can hope for is compliance, and where the energy levels required for any forward movement will age you faster than a month spent sunbaking on Mercury.
As teachers we have to be able to fire students up—about new repertoire, about performance opportunities, about a new practice game to try, about a new technique that had hitherto been out of reach. But when all attempts at motivation are greeted with variations on "Whatever...", what's left is impossibly hollow to do any useful work with.
A) All the time! (10 points)
B) Most of the time (6 points)
C) It's an occasional issue (2 points)
D) This never happens (0 points)