Re: Standardizing Skill Levels
- Subject: Re: Standardizing Skill Levels
- From: Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:28:34 -0400
On Jun 11, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Douglas Tate wrote:
>
>
> I concur!
You're only being nice because you feel sorry for me :(
>
> Writing a starters's book is a VERY difficult task.
THAT makes sense. The first grade teacher has to teach you to read
from " O ". The second grade teacher has a FOUNDATION to build on. I
was lucky. My older sisters taught me to read when I was 3. I guess you
could refer to them as a "standardized study plan" yuk yuk. By rights,
the teachers should have turned over MY share of the pay they were
receiving to teach me to my sisters.
> I've been trying to do it for years and can't make it so that you
> can leave an average person in front of it and they don't use it as
> bookshelf filler. Writing an advanced book is a doddle.
>
> I'll use a Joelike analogy.
> Remember shift stick autos?? Ah, age has it's advantages!! If you
> tell an experienced driver of a shift stick car how to turn on the
> radio when he doesn't know, he'll find it easy... he's got so much
> automatic car driving skills under his belt that he is on autopilot
> with them and only has one extra thing to do.
> I remember my first lesson starting from the side of the road...
> believe me, you had to do all of these things in England.
> Left foot Firmly on clutch pedal, Right foot Firmly on brake. Right
> and left hands at 10 to 2 on the wheel, looking straight ahead whilst
> looking in the rearview mirror and the right and left wing mirrors,
> the other right hand (UK remember) signalling out the window, the
> other left hand on the gear shift, the other right foot on the
> accelerator. Oh and listening to your instructor whittering away in
> your ear.
We (once) did it the same way here. But it's 2004 and why "Row"
through traffic? :)
> I ran into a ditch first time out!
Try a bulldozer (no wheel). Hey, try a boat. THEY steer from the
stern. THAT can get tricky :)
>
> It's like that with instruction stuff.
> DIFFICULT to write starter books...
>
> >> I'm not ready to grow into Doug Tate's book yet--that book is a
> reward for achievement of a certain level of skill, not a mere
> instruction manual, and I'm saying that because I mean it, not because
> Douglas reads and posts here.
>
> Yup ... Big Brother is watching. You are right, it isn't a book for
> beginners
> but there is a lot of stuff in there which beginners need to know....
> and MANY harmonica players of advanced playing standard but not taught
> NEED to know!
>
> Ken... if you come to SPAH I'll stand in front of you and tell you
> what you are doing RIGHT as well as what you may possibly be doing
> wrong.
>
> That's a promise.
>
> Douglas t
>
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