Klarinet Archive - Posting 000925.txt from 2004/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] confidence in the band program
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:03:30 -0400

Your approach sounds good. There's a fine line to be maintained between
shielding the kids from the truth (not correcting obvious problems) and
ignoring until later some details in order not to distract from the
students' working on and successfully solving more basic problems. I've
worked with and watched directors (and private teachers as well) who tried
to fix everything that was wrong at once. Measure by measure, note by note.
The time and attention spent on faults that occurred at many levels of
detail easily (almost necessarily) drove the things that went right into
insignificance, even when the teacher acknowledged them among all the
"wrongs."

We've never seen or heard you teach, so this isn't a criticism of you or a
suggestion that you need to change anything (we just don't know). It's just
a thought that anyone who teaches needs to consider as (s)he works.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Yip [mailto:clarinets21@-----.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:00 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] confidence in the band program
>
>
>
> I give them the ways to practice, always, and tell them what they
> did right
> and wrong.
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>
> Nicholas Yip
> Clarinetist and Music Teacher
>

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