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Re: Teachers being honest

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2009-04-11 08:42

>> Anyone who studies with a professional musician at a university is studying EXACTLY how to win a job <<

This is definitely not true everywhere for all teachers. I guess I should feel lucky then that it was completely different from this when I was in uni (studying with professional musicians, as you say). Actually, when I think about it now, my favorite teachers were the furthest away from this philosophy. If what you say was the focus in uni I would probably get bored very fast and maybe even quit.

Of course some teachers talked about the reality of being a musician (which is probably more difficult in my country than USA or most European countries) and had all sorts of suggestions.

I assume some teachers here too focus on this, because that's what some people want/try to do after they finish uni.

Re telling someone they are not good enough to do something and motivating them, sure it can be offensive and insulting. But if someone knows what they want to do, then they search for ways to do it and aim for this direction. For example someone might not be itnerested at all in "winning a job", or playing any of the examples in Ed's post. OTOH it's possible that someone could play those examples very good, and it would have no effect at all on their ability to do what they actually want to do.

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