CHAKA先生

お昼から、二人レッスン。
昨日の生徒さんと、もう１人別の生徒さん。

みんな、技術練習もさることながら
心をいかにポジティブに持って行くか？
が、大変なようだ

もう何人の生徒さんを受け持ったか
数えてもいないけど、（多分200人以上）
歌手を目指す人はみな、いつの間にか音楽が好きになり
いつの間にか歌ってる人ばっかり

元々、音楽が好きだった人ばかり。
だから、好きな歌を練習することは大変じゃない

でも、才能ってのは、ただ歌が元々上手いことではなく
何があっても「私はこんなもんじゃない！」と
前進し続ける力のこと

歌の道は、みんな大変だし、みんな孤独、
だけど、本当に音楽が好きだったら
その道を歩み続けられるでしょう
そして、その先には言葉にはつくせない
素晴しい景色があるのです

二人の若いシンガーに
私は正直に接し、
精一杯、伝えられることのすべてを伝えてあげたい



レッスン終えて、めっちゃ遅いランチ
４時半頃
I had a very late lunch after the lessons.
About 4:30 p.m.

スパゲティ・ペスカトーレ




そして、一旦帰宅して、今度は
自宅近くのスタジオで１人、レッスン

私のレッスンを希望してくれるみなさん
ありがとうございます

生徒さんがくれたマーブルチョコレート

子供の頃、長い髪をお団子にして頭に乗せてると
よく「マーブルちゃんみたい」と
言われたものです









I gave lessons to two students from 1 p.m., separately.
The first one was the same girl as yesterday's.
A girl from Sendai.

It is much harder for most singers to motivate themselves
than to keep having technical training.

I have given up counting how many students I had
taught. More than 200 I guess.
They have one thing in common.
All of them did not remember when they started
singing and listening to music.

They like music since they were very little.
That's why it is not very hard for them to practice
singing.


"Being talented" in English does not mean the same as
"Saino ga aru" in Japanese. Saino ga aru does not mean
being born good at singing.

Saino means the will to keep improving yourself
no matter what happens, and even when nothing
happens.

We are walking a long and winding road.
Sometimes we shall be overwhelmed by loneliness
and fear for the future.
If you really love music, you can continue
walking on the road, which will lead you to
a place where you can get a wonderful view
beyond description.

I will gladly give everything I've got to
the two young singers.
I promise to be true to them.



I went home and went out again to the studio in my
neighborhood to give a lesson to another singer.

Thank you very much for taking my lessons.


One of the students today gave me
"marble chocolates".
It reminds me of so long ago when I was
a kindergartener. I had a very long hair
worn in a knot on the the top of my head.
People often told me that I looked like
Marble-chan. ( The girl who was modeling
for Marble chocolate on TV commercial )