Chapter 12 Focus and Discipline

Chapter 12 Now listen to the story of Fred Sievert’s father how to play scales and summarize the story with your own words. You’ll listen to the story twice with teacher Karen from Missouri and Chris from Seattle. Karen Espeseth And even the father never stopped practicing the basics. "He would play scales," the son says. "Here's a guy who's already one of the best trumpet players in the country, and what's he doing? He's not playing some lengthy new tune that he wants to learn. He's playing the scales. Hour after hour, day after day. He would play these different scales. He would say to me that if he knew the scales and he could play them quickly, he could learn any song there was." Chris Walker And even the father never stopped practicing the basics. "He would play scales," the son says. "Here's a guy who's already one of the best trumpet players in the country, and what's he doing? He's not playing some lengthy new tune that he wants to learn. He's playing the scales. Hour after hour, day after day. He would play these different scales. He would say to me that if he knew the scales and he could play them quickly, he could learn any song there was." Jack Wilson That’s the end of the story. Please orally summarize what you have got from the story according to you notes.