Author: hartt
Date: 2006-01-07 19:06
Interesting 'concept' that you pose.
Leon Russianoff, one of the greatest teachers of all time and a teacher who 'produced' many, many symphony level calrinetists, rarely played during a lesson.
I would venture to say that perhaps numerous students could 'play' better than he BUT....they were able to because he was their teacher.
More often than not, he taught with fingering 'imaginary' notes in the air, 'tonguing' (dadadada) with no mouthpiece , marking music accordingly, etc etc.
He did not teach by rote......this is how it goes, played it and then saying now you play it like that.
His teaching method taught musicanship, technique (which has little to do with 'fast fingers') and so much more.
By like token, in my early years of 'learning', I had a teacher who was a phenomenal player: symphony, opera, recorded soundtracks, etc......yet, as a 'teacher' , I quickly learned in later retrospect, he was deplorable.
Personally, I'd like to read GBK's thoughts on this matter; he's a long time teacher, player, recording artist.
dennis
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