Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2022-12-02 18:42
Yes, a good teacher who understands adults learning from scratch or taking up the instrument again, should be able to start one on a good foundation and help one progress accordingly, without having that student experience frustration (or being under challenged).
I admire that you are learning the clarinet from scratch as an adult. I first learned at 12 and kept it up until I was 17. Then I took it up again around 2004 - got up to quite a good level and then - well I was entered at grade 5 (UK curriculum and not my choice) and that experience was a little traumatising for me. It's not exactly why I dropped it again, but it did leave me feeling deflated.
So my feeling is that one can jump too far ahead, making one take a step backward. I would myself advise mastering the grade 2 and 3 (there may be a reason why there are skills in them that you find difficult), before going onto the 4, but I'm not a music teacher and I don't know the exams, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
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