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Author: Phurster
Date: 2006-12-30 05:15
As a teacher I watch countless students simply repeating the techniques (no matter how ineffective) that they have always used.
Anything that can allow them a new perspective and the freedom to experiment should be encouraged.
Active demonstrations ie playing, and the use of metaphor are probably our only effective way of communicating complex techniques. The books that I have read on brain function suggest that even if you show what is actually happening. For examples diagrams of tongue position etc..We interpret these ideas our own way. What we think we are doing and what is actually happening can be quite different.
The sausage metaphor is a bit bizarre and for that reason probably effective. It does make me feel hungry though.
Other ones could be :
1. A water hose with the water pressure fully up. with one of those "things"releasing little squirts of water.
2. A machine gun that fires little cotton wool balls. (A bit violent, the cotton wool is an attempt to soften the image).
I think the idea of "release" rather than attack is important.
Having said all this I still find this aspect of technique difficult to teach.
Chris.
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