Klarinet Archive - Posting 000100.txt from 2007/01

From: "Nicholas Yip" <clarinets21@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] music students
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:11:46 -0500

Hi, Thanks,

I do teach them practice skills in a very detailed manner. In fact I suggest
to them a practice schedule on how to spend their time practicing.

What I get frustrated with sometimes is when students come back with the 'I
don't get it' syndrome. In some cases they really don't try. When they ask
me this question I will ask them, what don't they get? Some will stare at me
for five minutes. It is as if they cannot give me a detailed question.

As a previous poster said, "you can't change their behaviors". Well, he is
right, I may be stuck with it.

One more thing for everyone. I am not training all of them to be music
majors, but just to play for fun.

Nicholas Yip
Clarinetist and Music Teacher

>From: "avi rostov" <avi@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: Re: [kl] music students Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:53:25 -0800
>
>
>>1) They come in unprepared for lessons.
>Yes, some don't put in the time or effort to prepare, but others don't know
>how to isolate their problems and approach them in a constructive manner.
>Do you teach practice skills?
>>2) They look for the quick fix
>Haven't we all at some point? Sometimes it helps to explain the difference
>between "getting through" a piece developing the skill set it will will
>take to learn how to play most anything on their instrument.
>>3) They often ask questions of things they can figure on their own.
>It often seems that way, but be glad they are asking. That opens the door
>to learning.
>I find playing duets very helpful. When possible, I schedule students who
>seem compatible so that they can spend the last 5 minutes of one lesson and
>the first 5 minutes of the next lesson playing duets together. This adds
>an important social aspect that is missing from private lessons and
>increases the accuracy in playing that is necessary to make duets work. I
>also play duets with students and emphasize in my part the student's
>problem areas. They often pick up by example what is hard for them to hear
>when playing alone. A great side benefit it that duets are fun and can
>improve the mood of a lesson.
>
>
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