Diggsblues
241 posts
Mar 20, 2010
10:32 PM
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Finding a harmonica teacher can
be hard. When I started there
wasn't that many ways to learn.I think
knowing who is out there might be a help
to people.
I teach Diatonic and Chromatic harmonicas
in Philadelphia.
www.youtube.com/diggsblues
Support your teachers they
have spent a lot of time and
effort to gain knowledge.
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eharp
567 posts
Mar 21, 2010
5:16 AM
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i have taught introductory harmonica. i let the students know there are far better teachers out there, some of them charging a whole lot, but i can teach them the basics and get them to a level where they can jam with a band.
support this teacher- he has
spent little time or energy to
gain this knowledge.
and his rates prove it.
lol
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waltertore
290 posts
Mar 21, 2010
5:23 AM
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I will teach someone who has the real passion to learn and wants to learn the way I did from the old bluesmen - no theory, no explicit descriptions on how to do things, and no set agendas. I have to teach this kind of learner just like they had to teach me. This kind of student has to learn. The music is their focus in life,a nd they are led to their teachers. It is a spiritual thing that doesn't follow the normal rules of learning to play via lessons. They never discussed money and I never paid in cash. What I did was things that I was good at, that they needed. This kind of learner doesn't come along very often, so I haven't taught many. Walter
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Buddha
1514 posts
Mar 21, 2010
5:53 AM
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While it's enjoyable to teach a passionate student, a good teacher/master is able to inspire and incite passion within the student. The desire is there right? After all the student sought out the master.
I basically train people like I train dogs. If I'm shown a little glimmer of something I can work with then I cultivate that and build from there. I use a combination of positive motivation, positive re-enforcement, negative motivation, negative re-enforcement and outright compulsion. Everybody is different and everybody needs different methods are tools to get them to work. Only experience can teach you how to read a person and assess their needs.
As some people from this forum will attest, I help them become better students and don't really teach technique at all. Sometimes there are people who don't know they can learn what they want to learn.
I've worked with Brandon Bailey quit a bit and at first he was into blues but I knew that really wasn't him so I probed and found out his musical passion is actually somewhere else so I pushed him in that direction. Brandon is a pretty mellow and laid back guy. I wanted to teach him how to channel his emotions into his playing. But he's very good at controlling his emotions. So I repeatedly tossed him in a corner and pushed him until he was angry and then got him to channel it into his music. There would be weeks before he would speak to me again but he always came back. And I knew when he wasn't speaking, then I was doing a good thing because he was pissed.
You can see the same type of behavior in dogs, when you push them they either shut down and quit or they sulk for a bit and work harder. Brandon has worked very hard as what he does and I'm proud to say that he's one of the few players in the world that does stuff that I can't do. I'm not claiming responsibility for all that he does but I know I got him going on his own path and that's what is the most important thing about teaching and being a good teacher.
I teach people how to learn and I teach them how to teach. Now that Brandon understand, he doesn't need lessons from anybody because he is his own master.
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
Last Edited by on Mar 21, 2010 5:56 AM
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HarpNinja
300 posts
Mar 21, 2010
7:10 AM
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I have a Master's in education and am currently working on a Specialist degree in Ed Leadership. Currently I am a teacher on special assignment (year one of three before I go back to the classroom) and work half on staff development and half as the district elementary math specialist...so I have some legit teaching cred. ;)
I live in a town of 50,000 and harp players are hard to come by. When I do find students for harp, I take the science of education and come at it from that direction. Best Practices, the Dimensions of Effective Instruction, DuFour's work...it works extremely well for me. Coming up with goals and model to scaffold to that point is important. I've tried the, "So what do you want to learn today?", and that almost always fails to lead to anything measurable in terms of growth. I have worked with ages 4 to adult on various topics. I have a lot of experience teaching group beginner's lessons through the local blues society.
I would LOVE to have like 5 students right now, but like I said, it is hard to find people in town here. I've had several people ask if I'd do lessons in the Twin Cities, but I don't want to commute.
My biggest strengths are harmonica theory and playing non-blues music. However, I am comfortable with blues up to working with advanced players.
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DJKim
5 posts
Mar 27, 2010
10:41 AM
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Not harmonica. I'm actually currently a elementary school teacher here in Korea.
But does anyone here know of any harmonica teachers in Northern California? I'm really hoping to find a teacher when I move back to the states.
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Joe_L
122 posts
Mar 27, 2010
12:09 PM
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David Barrett teaches in San Jose.
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boris_plotnikov
62 posts
Mar 27, 2010
10:35 PM
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I give private harmonica lessons, skype harmonica lessons and I'm harmonica teacher in musical college. I also teach hard science (some very easy physics, biology, ecology, geography) for students of the same musical college as I'm master of biology.
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phogi
363 posts
Mar 28, 2010
5:32 AM
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I teach middle school kids how to play band and orchestra instruments. I've been asked for harmonica lessons, but I don't really have the time right now.
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