Audio Files and Foundation Session
Found in: Foundation Session, Free Introductory Session, Marketing & Advertising
Jane S., Western Australia
I just wanted to share with you a realization I have had recently.
I have listened many times to the Audio Files – The Relationship, Application, Separation and Foundation Session audio have made huge sense, and I felt like I was ready to go into these conversations fully.
I recently did a promotion at a shopping centre, grand piano at hand, lots of my students excited about coming to play and it all went very well. From that promotion I had several Introductory Sessions, and since have enrolled 3 new groups. In running the FIS’s and now this week having the Foundation Sessions, I have been amazed at the difference in KNOWING something, and thinking you UNDERSTAND something, and in actually THE DOING of the something. Knowing the premise: that every human being is innately musical, all makes great sense. I have heard it explained many times, and know the analogies well, but to actually have to articulate it a group of people, brings a whole new meaning to it. In having to do this with a group of people it was like I suddenly UNDERSTOOD IT FOR THE FIRST TIME.
The same thing has happened with the FOUNDATION SESSION. It all made sense on the recording, but a tiny bit of me was thinking, “Gosh, I’ll have to give them at least some of the basics, and even some of Dreams otherwise they will leave disappointed that they haven’t learnt any real music.”
By the time I went through everything that was needed to be covered – room; materials; expectations; times; Relationship Conversation (“Parents, who are you going to be for your child?”), there was little time for The Basics, let alone Dreams – yet everyone left excited and happy. I was amazed at how just sorting through all the conversations made such a good start to what is to be a long term relationship with students and parents.
In the 3 years I have been teaching Simply Music, I have often found myself thinking, “Why does he want it done that way?” Time and time again, I come to the point where I then say, “Oh! That’s why he wants it done that way!”
Thanks Neil. You give us invaluable lessons in teaching, music, dealing with people, and in life itself.