Teaching.

[Richard Brekne]

Newton Hunt wrote:

> >  comment on the use
> >  of ETD's in teaching.
>
> Don't.  Teach aural first.  When the student can tune well
> then taking up and EDT should be his choice.  Been there,
> made that mistake.

Hmmm... in which ways were you useing the  ETD... I dont quite
see how contriving excercises for Hammer technique useing an ETD
can be a hindrance..

For example.. one of the things I can think usefull to use some
time and effort on would be the following excersise. Mute off
say... f3 to a4. Single strings. Give the student say 10 minutes
to tune to the ETD.... then sit with him her and look at the
stability... see if there are any tendancies... do mistakes go
always flat ??? or perhaps sharp ?? or are they all over the
place... ? Try and discuss why and whatfors. Then un-mute the
strings and do the same thing with the unisons... this time with
the ETD off during tuning.

We are looking at a what.... half hour excercise ?? After a
couple run throughs with a teacher the student should be able to
do the excercise on his/her own.





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> Everything else said so far I agree with.
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>                 Newton Hunt
>                 Highland Park, NJ
>                 mailto:nhunt@jagat.com

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no