What a shame, what a shame!

We have all gone through extremely embarrassing moments in our lives, moments when we said "I'll take this to my grave" or "God, what have I done? I don't want to be seen" Well, today I will tell you about one of the most shameful moments I have experienced.

Sunday, February 27th

Hello my dear and kind friend of read.cash, I hope you are feeling very well today in this day so cloudy and cold, although we are in the dry season, the sky wants everything to be cloudy...

Tell me friend, have you ever had an embarrassing moment? Well, I have and I'm not the only one, I have found and read two articles of embarrassing things that have happened to other people and they have published it on read.cash, so I have decided to talk about an embarrassing moment thanks to them haha the first one I read was from @ARTicLEE you can find it here, and the second one I read was from @Fyangzee24 you can find it here

Story before the moment of shame

As you know if you read my articles I am a music teacher and I used to work in an academy. At first I was teaching music language and electric bass, then I started teaching piano lessons. So well, as musicians we participate in different events or we create events for the parents to see all the progress of the child.

We do a concert where the children play, enjoy themselves, take pictures, etc, etc. All this takes a lot of preparation, from choosing the themes according to the celebration (Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Children's Day, Teacher's Day, Musician's Day, Christmas, etc, etc, etc). After choosing very well the themes, the tonality, the musicians, the singers and all that, we also choose themes to be interpreted by the teachers and themes for some teachers to accompany the students, so far so good.

How long does this preparation take?

Between choosing songs, making arrangements, doing the sheet music, knowing what equipment is needed for the concert, fixing the instruments if they have a fault or changing the strings on the guitar, replacing or fixing cables that make noise, knowing if we will use a stage, where the event will be held, will there be lights, will they lend us the sound or do we have to provide it? We have to study very well which children are going to participate, then teach them the songs, see normal classes, rehearsal days with the children, rehearsal days with the teachers, between all that we can spend a whole month to organize the concert well, but something always happens. .. It is inevitable, but it usually happens with the representatives, who do not want to take their children to the academy, to the classes or to the rehearsals but they want them to participate in the concert, it is crazy, isn't it?

What happened to me?

I really don't know, I just hope not too many people noticed. At that time I was no longer teaching electric bass, all the students had left the country, so there were no electric bass students, but all the songs need that instrument, so I had to learn about 20 songs by heart on the electric bass, apart from teaching these same songs to my piano students and collaborating with guitar, singing and cuatro in case a student didn't know the song well, so I had to know what all the instruments would do.

We were in November, so the songs we were practicing were for Christmas, what a difficult time, the music is a bit complex... Because I was so saturated, the boss decided that some teachers who knew how to play the bass would help me with the songs, that is, that they would also play the bass in different songs and not only I. There were only three other teachers who knew how to play the bass. There were only three more teachers who knew how to play the bass among those were my couple, a drum teacher and a guitar teacher, perfect, now instead of playing 20 songs I only had to play 5, but the songs of the teachers were missing which were 4 songs, in which I would play the bass because I was the former teacher of this instrument. In total I played 9 songs...

Day of the event

The day progressed really well, we arrived at 1pm to set up the stage, the sound, the lights, arrange the chairs, test the sound, wait for the children, arrange where they should sit, where their parents would be, and all that, so that the event would be at 6pm.

The children were called at 4:30pm to give everyone a chance to arrive.

6pm

The event started well, my couple, another teacher and I are always the ones in charge of accommodating all the kids and knowing what song is coming, who is going to play, organizing and helping the kids to get on the stage, all the logistics are done by us, the other teachers don't collaborate. So that's fine, we've been doing that for years. My mind is in many places because I have to be aware of the kids when I'm not playing, but if I'm playing a song I still have to be aware of all the kids, the ones that are playing, the ones that are coming, the ones that are running around. So in one of those moments my head exploded....

What a shame!

I don't really know what happened, I was playing normally, when suddenly my mind went blank and I froze, I heard the sound technician behind me say:

"I can't hear the electric bass, I can't hear the electric bass! Is the instrument damaged? Is the cable damaged? Is the amplifier damaged? What's going on?" he said in desperation.

There was only one thing going through my mind....

"What am I doing? What chord is coming? What are we playing? Does the audience realize I can't move?"

Until my brain responded, my hands started to move and I remembered what song it was and where I was going, it was really about 15 or 20 seconds that I stopped playing but I felt like it had been an eternity, I felt like I was going to die.

When I got off the stage and went to help the kids, I didn't have a song to play but within 2 more songs, my couple took advantage of the time we were together and said to me:

"What happened to you, why did you stop playing?"

I said.

"I don't know, I guess my brain thought it was the best time to stop working."

The other songs went well, I didn't make a mistake, I didn't get lost and my brain didn't go blank again. I was very sad, I just hope they didn't notice it so much hahaha that the parents were only looking out for their kids and not me.

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