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Re: Is this an acceptable teaching method?

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2008-12-18 21:22

Norbert wrote:

>> Perhaps babbling works for infants because they are able to do it in an uncontrolled, unselfconscious way. Perhaps it works because infants don't care if they make mistakes. A normal adult, who cares desperately about his mistakes even if nobody is there to hear them, may not be able to benefit from babbling in the same way as an infant can.>>

I think that 'going over the break' for a clarinet player is much more analogous to 'saying a word' for an infant than it is to saying a tongue-twister -- because of course, some words are more difficult for an infant than others. (How hard is going over the break, REALLY?)

Nevertheless, what you write above is the nub of the issue.

You say, a normal adult cares desperately about his mistakes. I suppose that, contra the main thrust of this thread, what I'm trying to suggest to Noverbuf is that he might more effectively locate his difficulty more in his worrying about his failure than in his teacher's ability. (A particularly direct example of how 'worrying' can be a difficulty is that it very often stops you blowing properly.)

And, given that his teacher wants to say these things to him, perhaps they're well-founded things to say in his particular case.

(Or not. Difficult to judge from here, isn't it:-)

Tony

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