Lessons That Teaching Has Taught Me—part 6
Fix the weak links. Too often, a
student will get a piece fairly well learned, except a few places that seem to
trip them up repeatedly. I call these
the weak link passages or measures. The
song is a series of measures, linked together.
Most of them are beautiful, but the weak measures bring down the quality
of the whole piece. To fix these,
students have to learn to practice well. They have to identify and fix the
tough spots. They have to stop repeating
the easy parts over and over and over - and find solutions for fixing the parts
they aren't so good at yet. Most of us
probably don't have to think very long to apply this to a few weak measures in
our own otherwise disciplined lives, yes?
The author Sarah Wolf Frey is a 20 year veteran of
applied music teaching. In her words
“There are some ‘lessons’ that have become more and more true to me about life
in general...” This series is used by
permission of the author.
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