Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2023-06-26 05:18
Paul Aviles wrote:
> It seems there are some folks on the Board who advocate a
> method of education that inspires students to find their own
> solutions to problems both technically and musically. While I
> generally agree with the concept particularly for the musical
> problems/solutions, I see clarinet playing as a craft. Where
> most future master craftsmen learn by being apprentices under
> current master craftsmen, we are relegated to finding a way to
> apply practicum while only being students of the craft.
I agree with you that constantly asking a student at any level to go home and figure it out on his own is not an effective way to teach basic skills. Although at a certain advanced level, it becomes more effective for the teacher to describe (or model) a stylistic effect or playing quality and encourage the student to work out the mechanics. Certainly, if a teacher hears something in a student's technical playing that sounds like it needs to be fixed, the teacher needs to be involved, IMO actively, in the process of helping to fix it. But I think the standard saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" also applies. Leave the things the student already can do alone, and spend the time and attention on problems.
Karl
Karl
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