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I think it's more of a rejection of the instruction, not the concept being instructed. I had a similar experience with music instruction, everyone taught to th
by lotyrin 11y ago
I think it's more of a rejection of the instruction, not the concept being instructed.
I had a similar experience with music instruction, everyone taught to the instrument and to the book of music, never any concepts of music theory even to the point of "What's with the sharps and flats over here by the squiggle? Why not put them where I can see them easier?" "Yeah, I don't know, it's kind of a pain, I just write them back in with pencil." "How do you write a new song?" "Oh, it's really hard, you have to be really smart like Beethoven. Don't worry about that, we have plenty of stuff to practice in the book."
Later, in self educating, I discovered key signatures, playing to those keys (and even improvising!), and that I don't have to think about sharps and flats except for accidentals and it makes so much goddamn sense, but no adult I had access to in childhood ever knew or at least none could explain something which was so fundamental, something that actually made music fun and allowed me to create a positive-feedback loop required for consistent practice.
Had I stood firmer on the grandparent's question, rejected instruction sooner (instead of just through confused burn-out), and begun to self educate sooner, I could have avoided wasting a lot of time.
- retbull 11y agoA good teacher can get all of this for you. I knew all of that stuff because my mother was a violin teacher and she new musical theory in and out. Some of her first lessons are in theory before you get to sight reading so you don't have any questions like that. You had shitty teachers it sounds like and you should never reject formal education just because you had 1 bad experience.
- tonyarkles 11y agoIt's funny, I "learned" piano for years as a child, but somehow missed a lot of the theory (e.g. the circle of fifths). A year ago, I got a deal on guitar lessons from a student who was looking for work for the summer. It was a crash course, pretty much taught the basic cords (G, C, D, Em, Am, etc) but we didn't have enough time to go into much theory there either. But it was enough of a crash course to start looking at the guitar and figuring out how it works, relative to my base knowledge on piano. My partner is quite musical though (formally trained), and she's help fill in a lot of the gaps. I'm at the point now where I can fiddle around with different chord progressions and get good-sounding melodies to come out on my own. I get inversions and how they work on the guitar, etc. It's quite cool and way more interesting to me than just learning songs from a book.
- hueving 11y agoIf you would have rejected instruction, you would not likely be playing any music at all.