A traditional teacher friend of mine (meaning someone who bought by programs to learn additional ways to teach their students) sent me an interesting email the other day.
Full disclosure here.
I really like Mary, and she really cares about her students and like everybody else has successes and failures, but one line stood out to me that I want to look at.
Here it is:
“…I ask my students if they ever found themselves going under water while swimming, would they say, “oh well, I’ll just drown,” or would they fight to keep swimming to safety, thus improving reading and playing skills.”
Interesting…
… I would first want to know how they got in water so deep it put them in the position to drown?
That’s part of the problem with traditional teaching.
They throw everybody in the same pool, (reading sheet music pool) let those who are good at reading notes swim, and everybody else drown.
When, with a couple of floaties around their arms they could have gently made their way over to the shallow end.
And in the shallow end you realize the pool can be fun.
Same sun, same water, same experience, minus the fighting to save yourself from drowning part.
Now…
… you can always venture over to the deep end.
But most don’t.
Because the deep end is a lot more work (and for what?)
Just pull up your beach chair, put your feet in the water and enjoy it.
Thats how we learn piano with the Layer Method.
No sheet music, no drowning.
And at the end of the day you have actually enjoyed your experience.
You want to play piano with both hands quickly? I show you advanced stuff in the very first module that will blow your mind if you have struggled to learn before.
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