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Re: Great Teachers/Great Players

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2020-11-12 17:48

I've known a few great players that were not great teachers but you could learn a lot from them by listening to them play. Some great teachers that are also great players faulted if they could only teach the way they played. What I mean by that is those that insist you play the same equipment they do, do everything the way they do no matter what limitations or differences the students phyicial make up is that prevents them from doing it that way and can't explore a way to help the student achieve the goal another way. The "my way or the highway" approach.
I'm not going to name names but I've come across that in my many years of teaching when I would get a student on a temporary basis, summer, or long term that studied with a "recognized" teacher and told me they were having a problem with something or I recognized a problem and would ask how are you trying to doing that and they would replay, the way so and so told me to do it. Tonguing is percect example. So I would experiment doing it slightly different ways until we achieve the desired resut. That didn't make the other teacher a poor teacher, it just meant they were unwilling or unable to explore other ways for a student that couldn't achieve somethng the way they did.

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