A new way to teach kids music

[Ariadne]

I was listening to a CBC report a couple days ago, and that's *exactly* what they were saying.

Everyone from Gen-X to younger has a neurological thing about instant gratification, and the report consisted of a discussion among experts as to why it might be, because it's not an imaginary phenomena; it's measurable in laboratory controlled phycho-neurological experiments.

They're not exactly sure what's doing it. The easy-offhand notions of too much TV were brushed away because it's not seen in earlier generations who had easy access to TV. It's something else.

Whatever the cause, it's a fact that young people people today do not have the ability to postpone-reward the way earlier generations did.


Indeed.


Yeah... nothing beats one-on-one instruction, because if they can't get gratification from the quality of the tunes they can plunk out when starting, they can at least get it in the form of praise and encouragement from the coach.

When I teach any kind of software, I have some short exercise to get everyone started and to give them instant gratification. That sometimes sparks an interest or excitement in terms of the possibilities. After the steep learning curve, where learning plateaus, it becomes more challenging to inspire the student to go the next lap.

 

[Omicron]

When I teach any kind of software, I have some short exercise to get everyone started and to give them instant gratification. That sometimes sparks an interest or excitement in terms of the possibilities. After the steep learning curve, where learning plateaus, it becomes more challenging to inspire the student to go the next lap.

So... imagine three girls with three guitars.

One gets shown how to hold a C chord (preferentially the strongest girl, because she's going to be the most common chord).

Another gets shown how to hold an F chord, and the third how to hold a G chord.

Those are the three basic chords required for a blues progression... constituent of 90% of blues-based music.

First they get conducted... you point the wand at the C-girl, then the F-girl, the the C-girl, then... you know... G, F, C whatever from there... let it be the conductor's discretion.

From there the girls get together and do it themselves.

From there they do natural human experimentation, and from there you get the next Joan Jett.