Posted by: Michelle Gordon
Springtime Doldrums - 04/13/00 11:17 AM
This is a time of year when some of my students can feel a little "strung-out" because of Final exams and Standardized testing in school. Because of that, practice time suffers, and the learning curve begins to straighten out. It is also a very busy time of year in my studio, with Spring recital right around the corner in May, and Guild Auditions coming up. What do you feel is the best way to deal with all this? This year I have ended up slowing down in the Method books, and working exclusively on Recital and Guild pieces in order to get them polished and memorized without having students feel stressed to push on to new concepts. But is this teaching them that I don't expect them to be learning new things?