anybody a private teacher for a musical instrument?

[Semidevil]

Is anyone a private teacher for kids learning to play musical instrument? what are you thoughts on teaching beginners how to play?

With me, i've been playing the violin for 10 years, and I must say, i'm not a good violin player. Sure I know and I can play a lot, but I think, I'm not the best player for my number of years of experience.

I kind of think it will be fun to teach, but in my experience, all my teachers were always the phenomenal musician......so I was wondering how it would be like to teach a kid, when you are only a mediocore player....

any thoughts?

 

[HappyPuppy]

People are their own worst critics. You may be better than you think.

 

[Semidevil]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
People are their own worst critics. You may be better than you think.

well, I mean, with me, I've always been sitting in the mid range, section, and never got to sit in the front, i'm just afraid that if I happen to teach a student who knows what he or she is doing, then I will get owned..........or maybe the parents know a bit, and wll pwn me...

 

[badmouse]

I taught piano for a while, on the side - that's what I majored in back in college - and I still have a couple of students.

Teaching is completely different from playing. My father was a professional jazz pianist, and I just automatically picked it up. I don't remember "learning" at all. When I started to teach, I didn't have a clue as to how students learned to play the piano.

Traditional wisdom is that the first few years of a teaching career, the students are the ones doing the teaching. It was true for me.

If you want to teach, go for it. Good luck. You don't have to be a good player to be a good teacher. No matter how well you play, you will occasionally come across students that you don't feel right with, for whatever reason. Send them on to someone else.

 

[Howard]

Once you teach proper technique, everything else is just practice. IMHO, of course. Once you get to that point, listening to pieces performed by violin masters really helps.