Students with Prior Experience

I have a handful of teen students most of whom have switched over to SM from traditional experience. I have to say that they cover the gamut of ability, interest and practice regiment. This is a very challenging age group because I have a couple…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• group lessons, shared lessons, students with previous experience, teens, traditional students, working with teens

I have a couple of teenagers (16 and 17) that have years of previous experience and have been with Simply Music since summer ’09. They both catch on easily and are wonderfully capable of going forward.  However, neither of them are keeping their playlist alive and…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• life coaches, Playlist, practice, previous experience, prior experience, teenagers

This is probably a moot point because this student has all but decided to quit, but I’ll ask anyhow. Here’s the background: 17 year old student, who was my most advanced of traditional students when I transferred my studio over to Simply Music. He has…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• Accompaniment‏, bored student, claiming territory, practicing, quitting, student with previous experience, teen students, traditional student

I have a student named Karen that is 63 and is in a group with 2 other women. All of them have prior experience, and things are going well.  We are in the middle of level 2 and have had 12 lessons. Karen however, from…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• blues, claiming territory, following the program, importance of blues, not wanting to learn songs, omitting pieces from the program, previous experience, shared lessons

I have a new adult private student with previous experience. She has had 4 lessons. I taught Dreams and Night the first lesson and told her she’d probably feel like going ahead but I wanted her to wait. Well, second lesson she came back and…

• Last updated 9 years ago
• accompaniment, fast moving student, learning a new way of learning, previous experience