Re: Lessons vs no lessons

Kelly & Robin Beecher (beechers@mindspring.com)
Thu, 02 Jan 1997 11:43:31 -0500

HarpRealm@aol.com wrote:
>
> I've heard of far
> too many teachers slapping a students hand - they all need a good course in
> psychology before they begin to teach! (snip) If a teacher is very aware,
> they will watch the student and listen to their speech patterns and custom
> their teaching style to ENABLE that person to succeed.

Bravo Tina! Helping each person to play musically and the best that
they can is the reason for lessons. Playing Planxty Irwin in "C" from
Sylvia's book, musically and without pause is no less an accomplishment
for some students than Ceremony of Carols would be for others. (I said
accomplishment -- not that it's not harder). In fact for some students
it's a greater accomplishment to get Planxty Irwin down, and you just
want to cheer for them when they do!

Robin