Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2022-12-09 23:28
Tony,
You make a great point about, well...not making a point to define something as "difficult," "hard," or "scary."
I didn't have private lessons until I reached high school, and our entry-level band instructor played flute. She was able to show us how to hold the clarinet, etc., but didn't offer a lot of extra advice (as I recall, she taught us more about care of the instrument, reeds, and corks than she did about fingerings, etc.)
The books we were taught out of had simple little melodies in them. (Twinkle, Twinkle; Hot Cross Buns; etc.) The book also contained a fingering diagram any time new notes were introduce.
In hindsight, having never been told certain things were "hard" or "easy" prevented us from forming much in the way of roadblocks for ourselves.
Even as adults - it is easy to be intimidated/swayed by warnings/viewpoints/ideas which end up becoming obstacles to our goals. In the end, many times, the secret path forward is to ignore what we have been told - to come to our own understanding.
Fuzzy
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