Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2020-10-26 16:44
Hi nellsonic. that's an interesting interview, and thank you for the post. McGill draws the same analogy with sports coaching and says he thinks it probably would be good for musicians, but he doesn't seem convinced. He does record himself and listen, then puts on his teacher hat, so to speak, and teaches himself from that degree of separation.
Maybe the comparison with athletes doesn't quite hold up. Playing an instrument isn't inherently a competitive pursuit. The prep involves the individual, and performance (usually) is a collaboration. It's subtly different from sports.
Another point: the best coaches or teachers are rarely the greatest practitioners. Great players are sometimes poor teachers, perhaps because they've never had to think about how they do some things they do, they just did them. A great teacher has to have a clear and detailed framework of how things work - and be able to communicate it to different people.
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