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Re: Systematic training - need help

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-07-14 19:09

kj2008 wrote:

> I am
> very happy with them and am progressing very well (and money
> well spent).

I don't know this particular program, so can't comment on it specifically. But unless it has some mechanism for providing knowledgeable feedback from the teacher (or creator of the lessons), this way of studying can be better than absolutely nothing, but is still far from optimal. The only pair of ears involved in the process is your own, and for a beginner those ears may not be as perceptive as a set of experienced ones. So the result can be good or you can only be deluding yourself into thinking it's good. There is no guarantee against building bad (i.e. counterproductive) habits and no way for a musically inexperienced student to know, aside from technique, what else from an aesthetic point of view needs to be worked on and listened for.

Karacura describes herself (I really hate the anonymity of screen names - I assume Kara is female) as a clarinet beginner. Much of the advice given so far, including mine, might be very different if she is musically experienced and is only adding clarinet to her repertoire of instruments (which she doesn't tell us). She asks about targets for measuring progress. Describing benchmarks for a musician learning a new instrument would be much easier to set up, because a certain level of awareness could be assumed.

Karl

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