Klarinet Archive - Posting 000937.txt from 2004/07

From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Advice needed on young clarinet student wanting to learn sax
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:39:49 -0400

Nancy said, " My point here is to let the kids so what they want. Tell =
your
little
> student how you view her future as a musician.... that you are sure =
she
> can
> play whatever she sets her mind to as long as she is patient. Tell =
her it
> might no longer be as easy as just playing one instrument. Then help =
her
> to do everything she wants, even if it is a little more work for you.
> With
> your help, she will probably succeed. With your discouragement, she =
will
> sneak behind your back and do it anyway. When kids want something =
really
> badly enough, they are willing to work hard to get it, as long as they
> have
> support while trying to progress. Who knows, you may have another =
"Eddie
> Daniels" here."

OK Nancy. You've convinced me. We'll go for it and let the chips fall
where they may. She'll decide in the end and I'll simply take things at =
her
pace. I think we'll have lots of fun on the journey. I always tell my
students that I feel I must prepare them for anything-including a life =
as a
professional musician, since I cannot predict what they will do with =
their
music someday. So, when they complain about memorizing scales, counting
rhythms, or being asked to have a pencil with them at every lesson, =
etc.. I
always tell them that professional musicians do all these things. Then =
they
say, "well, I''M not going to be a professional musician" and my reply =
is
always, "One NEVER knows!" Christy

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