No lessons never. Fortunately! Ha, ha, ha. Reading this is refreshing to say the least. I've missed some of this good train of thought. I'll make sure to check on you frequently if the job gives me a break.
It must be pretty interesting. Reminds me a lot for the concert I attended weeks ago. That was a close of the school year of El Sistema. Of course, something like that has a whole lot of political agenda. Here I guess it's just more grounded on the educational level. I think I'm on the same page with the talented and lazy. I can brag about good memory, but the movement requieres practice and more practice. It helps a lot when you like the stuff you're supposedly to play or learn.
An example of that would be that I have already ditched some of the solos I performed earlier in the year just because they were stepping stones towards certain goals in technique. I kept the technique, tho.
And about the stage part, I don't think there's a human being able to shut that nervous part of their brains before a performance. I remember could feet were the kind of symptom I had when I used to be on stage. Fortunately, I was never a soloist in anything. Recording has its difficulty as well, but one can argue it gets easier not performing in front of a crowd.
About the methods, I believe fear, rewards and pep talks do the same job. The key fact there is knowing where you need to put that kind of motivation at work. As everyone's learning style differs greatly from others even in the same spectrum.
Hopefully, all your students will do great! Around here classes tend to extend to the first half of July. So there's more time for the lazy to keep being like that. 😂
Yes, I guess you are happy as you are not a teacher :))) I kinda feel that from your words :D
So you are the talented but the lazy one. Wasn't you bored at the lessons? As I see those students get everything easily and later they are bored but don't want to practice to some fine details by themselves.
Oh no, in Venezuela the lessons last until the middle of July? But when they start again later? In september?
Very happy I'm not a teacher. That thing about having to be reminding people of the stuff they ought to be doing is too tiresome.
I was always bored at classes. Never took too much music lessons. Just for 6 months or so. And of course I never practiced the important stuff. It was until a few years ago that I realized you don't gett better if you don't do the fine and boring work of practising. Life and its essence.
Yeah, schools work like that. They end up mid July and start again on the last days of September.
Not always tiresome, sometime it is interesting :D
It's all a matter of perspective. I don't like because I'm independent on the learning department.
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