Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2016-12-13 18:27
I ALWAYS play along with all students. Now, it's been awhile since I had an active studio, but my students always tended to make very good progress. I wouldn't accept a teaching job that didn't allow it, as I think it's a terrible idea to not play along.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a sound is worth ten thousand. Once, when I was in grad school, my teacher kept trying to get me to try certain tone coloring in a passage of Debussy. Though very verbally articulate, he kept getting frustrated that I didn't 'get it.' Finally, I said "Oh c'mon, just take out your horn and play it for me." He did, and I copied what he was suggesting immediately. Had he just done that to begin with, we could have saved hours of lesson time...
He was an old man at the time, though, with bad arthritis and a full time symphony job...so he had to save his hours for work. I understood that. But for the young and/or healthy, there's no excuse IMO.
Eric
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