Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2003/07

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Teacher vs student (was ATG Reed system)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 22:51:08 -0400

> Tom Puwalski wrote:
>
> It's funny, I'll run into a clarinetist, every once in a while, who will
> ask me "How do I learn to play Klezmer music?" I'll take a few minutes
> to explain [snip] Usually one out of every two people will then
> proceed to tell me exactly why what I have just said won't work. They
> don't try it. They don't follow the directions, they won't do what other
> successful people have done that works.
>

I have seen a good deal of this, too. But the other reason why students
often seem to do the opposite of what you're trying to teach them is that
they get so anxious about trying to do things the "right" way that they get
too tense and lose control and end up doing whatever their heightened
adrenalin levels allow them to do. Both reactions come from the same
source - a natural human tendency not to want to cede control to someone
else, even when they have explicitly entered into a relationship that seems
to require it. Some students (and others) simply want to prove they already
know what they need to know. Others try too hard to do it "right" on the
first try because they don't want to appear "inept", which they at some
level equate to "inferior". None of this need be conscious, although the
"know-it-all-already" type has to go to more conscious effort.

Karl Krelove

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