The most fascinating thing about teaching, is how different everyone is. Different levels of alertness, interest, ability and aesthetic levels.
There are two main categories of teaching that I apply: pure enhancement and correction.
Pure Enhancement
I guess you can call this straight-ahead teaching. I know what the student want’s to do and I show him the skills needed to accomplish that.
Correction
Though there are various levels of correction possible, this mainly entails fixing up any bad habits or incomplete knowledge or skills a person could have. For example: I had a guitar student once who had developed some really bad picking technique and wanted to fix it. Another student didn’t understand what she was playing on the piano and kept on getting confused in the middle of songs. I just needed to fill in her theory holes.
I could go on and on.
In following through with this post topic, people respond in all different ways. Some are resistive, some gladly accept whatever I give them to do, while others learn so fast they end up teaching me something!
And people have asked me If I ever get bored teaching? I don’t think so.
Student’s have cried when they didn’t like some music they wrote, or rejoiced from playing something perfectly.
I could on and on, but it’s time for dinner.
What kind of student have you been?
Marty B.
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