Re: Standardizing Skill Levels

["G." <gigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:21:18 +1000
From: "ozharp" <harpgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Standardizing Skill Levels
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But there is a big difference between hearing a serious
but poorly musically educated mouth organ player performing a few of his
handful of favorite party tunes, and being in the presence of an educated
musician sight reading a technically difficult piece of music for the first
time that they've never heard before and playing it at flawlessly at full
speed with full expression.

In my mind there is no doubt at all that even if you couldn't give a toss
about being 'graded' as a harmonica player, a formalised grading system will
expose the serious student in a methodical manner to the majority of
techniques that can be performed on a given instrument, in this case the
harmonica, in such a way that the learning process will be methodical and
streamlined as opposed to haphazard and unnecessarily prolonged.
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Cheers,
Paul
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Hear hear!

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