teaching clues

One of my new students (a 16 year old, very disciplined at practicing, and he and his Dad both love SM so far, he is on Jackson Blues) just told me today that he is also learning some extra songs (songs he likes and knows…

• Last updated 4 years ago
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I have a level one student (7 yo) who learned the whole AMB (2 and 3) by watching the level 1 demo. Argh! Naughty, naughty! I point out to students when they do this, they are missing out on vital learning clues (I don’t tell…

• Last updated 4 years ago
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I believe someone was mentioning Level 8 in some prior comments, so I thought I would add my 2 cents about teaching this level. Level 8 is always very interesting to teach!  I had a student just this week tell me that she was going…

• Last updated 10 years ago
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