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Re: Do you play along?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-12-14 00:28

runner wrote:

> I have my students "evaluate" their own playing by merely
> stating :"Can you play it better?" It works. It seems when
> they replay the passage the things the did not do well are
> played better.

This also depends on the student. I have a couple of students who are aware enough of their own playing output to self-diagnose, which is my goal with every student. And they can only do that if they can hear themselves.

But I also have a few who, if I ask generically "Can you play it better?" will find something to change (they assume from the question that something wasn't right) but repeat the actual problem uncorrected because they have no idea what was wrong - they haven't learned yet to listen self-critically. They need to be able to hear themselves if they're ever going to learn to self-diagnose.

So, if asking them to self-correct gets a useful response, I'm thrilled. If it doesn't, I need to be the diagnostician and the prescriber if any improvement is to happen. Whether that can can be done better by playing along or by either explaining or modelling and then keeping quiet while they try to apply a correction IMO depends on the problem.

Karl

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