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10/01/2006 12:28 pm
At last, I've plucked up the courage to organise some lessons. The plan is to take four half hour lessons, and then decide from there whether the teacher is good enough to stay with.
My question is, what sort of things should I be looking for during the first four lessons, to find whether the guy is worth taking more lessons from or not? See, I definitely want a teacher, now, but I want to look for the right one. And being "self-taught" till now, I don't know what I don't know or what a good teacher should be teaching me.
Or is it as simple as "if you like him after four lessons, stick with him".
10/01/2006 12:55 pm
You want a teacher who's a coach -- one who takes some time to get to know your strengths and weaknesses and your goals and then works with you to help you achieve them. In a lesson you should feel challenged but also leave with the sense that you've been equipped to meet that challenge.
Hope that made sense.
Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon
10/01/2006 1:00 pm
Hmmm - I've never had a teacher myself so these are just speculations - on a general level it may be that the important things for you to learn are the things that you do not like (else, you would know them already). A good teacher spots this and make you practice what you don't like, whereas a not-so-good teacher lets you keep on doing waht you like. In that perspective it would be more unpleasant to attend lessons at your good teacher. Perhaps also you need to change some bad habits etc... On the other hand if the teacher doesn't motivate you to keep on playing it doesn't matter how good (s)he is.
...I think you will know after 4 lessons anyhow.
Good luck
Lars
...only thing I know how to do is to keep on keepin' on...
LARS kolberg http://www.facebook.com/sangerersomfolk
10/01/2006 6:24 pm
Wow, I was getting ready to ask the exact same question.
11/01/2006 12:48 am
look for whether or not you've improved at the end of the four lessons faster than if you would have otherwise. i've had a so-called "good" teacher who i didn't like and now i have a teacher, who i frankly, don't think is the greatest, but yet i keep improving under him. so i'm sticking with this one.