RE: playing harp as a kid (was: Howard Levy in the school system)

["HIH Jervis Groeneveld" <harmonica@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Iceman,
I have that video. The girl playing 1st position, right? She's great! 
One of my students is an 8 year old girl who takes some workshops
together with her parents and her grandfather. and they practice as a
family, isn't that great? She was quite impressed/surprised when I
showed her the video, but up until now she likes playing (the Dutch
equivalents of) songs like "Oh Susanna" etc more than blowing the blues.
I guess that kids of her age are just not interested in musical styles,
they just wanna have fun!
(come to think of it.. Oh Susanna is 1st position stuff, too. who knows
where that may lead..?).
 
Jervis Groeneveld
Mijehof 271
1106 HH Amsterdam.
(+31) 20 774 8657 (home)
(+31) 6 4231 3333 (cell)
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Verzonden: donderdag 6 mei 2004 19:17
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Onderwerp: Re: playing harp as a kid (was: Howard Levy in the school
system)
 
In a message dated 5/6/04 4:59:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
harmonica@xxxxxxxxx writes:




I'm starting an initiative for (first) musical lessons
to children between 9-12 years.  Any other ideas?


If you want to reach these kids directly, show them a video of Sunny
Girl playing harmonica (available as part of SPAH - blues blow off
videos in 98 - 2000). She is 7 - 9 years old on these videos.

As an adult teaching children, there will alway be a generation gap.
However, when kids watch one of their contemporaries performing, it is a
direct link to their core and they will relate immediately on a personal
level.

The Iceman