Author: Dutchy
Date: 2008-06-06 19:26
Can I ask, how old is your student? If she's younger than, say, high school age, I would definitely not push her too hard at this point in time. You sound a little like you think, perhaps subconsciously, that "good tone" is something where you just have to show her once or twice, "here, do it like *this*..." and then she'll pick it up and stop making that duck quack, and then you can get on with teaching her those "other" things.
But young(er) children sometimes need time and repetition to internalize the "do it like *this*, not like *this* aspect of it; it may not be sufficient for you to simply tell her how to do it, she may need to take weeks, or even months, to learn for herself how to do it properly.
So I'm saying, be patient. A duck quack goes with the territory.
My kid sister had a best friend, back in the day, and when they were in the 6th grade, the friend took up the oboe. And the friend's parents objected to the duck quack, so the friend used to come over to our house to practice. And it was a year, at least, by the time the friend entertained us with an oboe sound, rather than a duck quack, and she could go practice at her own house.
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