#LO4: Showing Perseverance, Resilience and Commitment
As time went by, my saxophone teacher suddenly developed this useful idea in which he started giving me songs to play on my own but that is not all, he made sure to give me an audio of the song so that I could listen to it and figure out myself how the song is played. I must say that it took what is called perseverance and commitment to learning everything almost by myself. We reviewed the songs that he gave me every week so as he could get the chance to see if I am making progress and if there is anything that he could clarify. What always kept me going in this creative portion of CAS was the joy I got from playing the saxophone and also the dream to be a great saxophonist someday in my life.
Sometimes I got really frustrated when I was not able to figure out the right music notes to play as part of the song but that became better when I learned more notes and keys to playing the saxophone. On an occasional basis, I kept feeling like it was too late for me to play the saxophone but then whenever I told this to my teacher he told me that, “it is never too late to follow your passions” and even related this scenario to himself where he said that he started learning how to play the saxophone when he was as old as I am. This made me have hope and belief that indeed I will succeed in this journey.
Below are some of the songs that I was assigned to work on by myself as practice:
