Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 1997/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: instruction and technique
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:14:26 -0400

Nicholas:
prehaps (heresy??????!) you are getting *too much teaching*. Maybe you
need to stop taking lessons fro a while, set yoursdelf some goals of your
own, and conscientiously attempt to fulfil them by yourself.
Roger Shilcock

On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip wrote:

> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 15:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip <nyip@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Cc: nyip@-----.edu
> Subject: instruction and technique
>
> I had no intentions of insulting anybody or starting anything, however,
> if I did I apologize. My grammar, especially at 11 P.M. Let's talk clarinet!
> All of your advice was well appreciated. Over the last five I have had
> four different instructors.For the sake of privacy I will keep my clarinet
> teachers anonymous, although they will know who I am. I started my
> clarinet instruction during the summer prior to my enrollment at
> California State University Northridge.. Once at Northridge I had another
> clarinet instructor who preffered to teach techniques prior to
> literature.I was at Northridge for only one year because I got into
> trouble so my parents pulled me out. The next school I was with another
> clarinet instructor who had a different way of teaching. I was only with
> him for one year because he was very busy. The following year I had
> another instructor who preferred that I play a different way then I had
> learned from the previous instructor. Next year, as a transfer student, I
> am off to UC Santa Cruz and I will be studying with another instructor for
> hopefully more than one year.I had not much of a choice to stick with
> someone for more than year, since I got into trouble. From each one of
> them I learned something whether it was embouchure or fingers. The
> difficulty for me when I adapt and learn something new is that it
> sometimes takes me awhile to catch on. Everytime I make a mistake I can
> tell that my past instructors or professors are very frustrated or
> agitated(they are great instructors, not screwed up) at me. I do not sit
> very well with frustration and agitation. I go home and practice over and
> over again I make mistakes and I become frustrated and angry and start
> thinking what the instructor is going to say the next time. I have learned
> things by thinking on my own, however I have made mistakes some
> instructors have become frustrated. If I am going to make mistakes, how can
> I please everyone and think for myself without someone becoming agitated
> or frustrated? It seems like that I have to be somewhere in a hurry.If
> time kills students how is our teacher? Sometimes there have seem to been
> more frustration than encouragement. I guess that is part of the learning
> process.
> To Tonya:
> Taking one or two keys at a time, starting with the simple ones,
> seemed to work for me in learning my arpeggios and scales. However,
> everyone has different learning abilities and learning does require
> time and patience.
> Karl Krelove
> "Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students!"
> [Already at end of message]
> Nick Yip
> nyip@-----.edu
>

   
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