I’ve had a piano for two years.
But I’ve only had lessons for two months.
I think I waited so long because I was afraid.
I remember the stories my mom told me about her teachers.
She went to a Catholic school for girls.
Her teachers were nuns.
And when she misbehaved, a nun would whack her hands with a stick.
But my piano teacher isn’t a nun.
She doesn’t beat me.
And I don’t even think she has a stick.
In fact, she corrects me in the best way possible…
TUNE YOUR EARS
Instead of correcting me, she asks me, “Does that sound right?”
The correct answer is always, No.
A musician knows when he plays a bad note.
His ears tell him.
And a native speaker knows when he makes a mistake.
His ears tell him.
But a stuck student expects a miracle: he wants his brain to tell him the rule.
Murphy’s English Grammar In Use has 380 pages of rules.
And when you’re done with the blue book, you can buy the red book and learn more rules.
Maybe you’re smarter than me, but I can’t remember hundreds of rules and hundreds of exceptions to rules AND have a conversation.
Therefore, you must train your ears to know what sounds right and what sounds wrong.
How do you do that?
It’s level two on our pyramid….
Cheers,
Mr. Vig
Salut you!
Maybe, learning a new language is a completely sensitive process like you need all your senses to learn it, to feel it.
Well, I learnd and played piano 6 years in primary music school but I don’t play it about 30 years. I choosed science and egineering. I think, sense is important for everything. Not only talent or intelligence.