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From: t~umancode.com (Tim Moyer)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:17:55 -0600
Subject: Re: allow me to introduce myself

At 08:38 PM 1/21/98 +0000, Douglas Tate wrote:
>I believe that a good teacher will say... this is the way I teach... it
>works for me, I have expertise in this method and can teach it to you
>efficiently.... it will allow you to do XYZ... but there are other methods
>I can maybe show you, but not as well as another teacher... etc etc...

Precisely! The point is not that what is being taught is not valuable, but
that it is being sold as the "only" way a thing can or should be done.

>When a blues player rings me up and asks about lessons i tell them I don't
>know blues playing, can't teach them pucker, won't teach them bends, don't
>know any licks..... BUT if they want to learn how to produce sound, how to
>breathe well, how to get a wide variety of sound out of their instrument,
>then they can come for a lesson....
>9 times out of 10 they come along and I teach them to bend, TB, pucker,
>u-block and make a big sound. Frequently they come back for more... but
>mainly I point them in the direction of a specialist in their field.

I wish all teachers were as forthright as you, Douglas. It would stop a
lot of this single-mindedness about what is "right" and "not right".



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