Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2005-09-30 14:02
Here's a couple more:
- Keeps challenging you to move to the next level
Example: after several months of my diddling around with repertoire, with no thought of doing anything but enjoying it, my teacher posed, "So, when would you like to do your recital?"
Moi? Recital? It hadn't crossed my mind. After all, I'm not in a program, or anything.
But we did it, and it was glorious, and I got SO MUCH better in the process. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't experienced it!
- Is not TOO directive. Lets you play and discover, and uses what you
are doing/not doing as the springboard for development.
This may speak to GMAC's criterion of not wasting your time. I agree that there needs to be some structure in the lesson, but as a highly motivated student with a non-directive teacher, I have grown in ways I didn't even know were possible, because I feel very relaxed and not at all intimidated or "on the spot" in my lessons. When we "discover" something about my playing (such as how hand position affects fluency), it really stays with me, and I understand it immediately and don't resist it. In my case, this is much better than, say, having had her hammer me about my hand position week after week.
Good thread idea.
Susan
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