Klarinet Archive - Posting 000926.txt from 2004/10

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] confidence in the band program
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:23:54 -0400

Karl,

It is unfortunate that I am not going to have the time to devote to this
topic that I wish I could, but I do want to make one clarification on your
very fine point.

The mistake made by directors and private teachers who work measure by
measure correcting everything that is wrong is not that they are shouldn't
try to correct what is wrong. The mistake is, rather, giving the student or
students music which is too difficult.

Forgive me if I am nitpicking and I have no doubt you already knew this,
but I thought it was worth being absolutely clear.

-Adam

At 04:02 PM 10/30/2004 -0400, Karl Krelove wrote:
>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."

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