Ha ha, I agree completely!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "B. Ritchie" <nemo2000@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Stav Tapuch" <tapuch@hotmail.com>
Cc: <shakuhachi@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Teachers
> Top 10 reasons why a teacher is preferable to an instructional guide and
CD.
>
> 1. An instructional guide can't take you out for a beer.
>
> 2. The instructional guide won't organize student recitals and other
> performances for you.
>
> 3. If perchance you get a performance through other means the instruction
> manual won't be able to help you put on your kimono.
>
> 4. An instructional CD can't introduce you to it's other students.
>
> 5. An instruction book will seldom bring over bratwurst for the Packer
game.
>
> 6. An instructional guide can't introduce you to other instructional
guides.
>
> 7. When a great player comes to visit from Japan he can't crash out at the
> instructional guide's house.
>
> 8. You can go on a bike ride with your instructional guide, but the
> conversation will be poor.
>
> 9. The instructional guide does not have a cute little daughter to play
with.
>
> 10. Unless you have flawless intonation, familiarity with the microtonal
> scales and pitches of Japanese music, total objectivity about your own
sound,
> the ability to see yourself from outside your own body and interpret that
> information, knowledge of arcane Japanese shakuhachi terminology,
voluminous
> historical knowledge of the pieces, players and schools of shakuhachi, the
> ability to locate and choose a good instrument despite being a beginner,
> understanding of the nuances of the pieces not depicted in the notation,
> comprehension of the appropriate vibrato to use for each piece, note or
phrase
> (and when not to), knowledge of which of the many fingerings for each
pitch is
> appropriate in any given instance, etc. etc. etc, you probably could
benefit
> from having a teacher.
>
>
>
> Stav Tapuch wrote:
>
> > In learning how to play the shakuhachi, how crucial is live instruction?
It
> > seems that the most difficult part is developing the muscles of your
lips
> > and abdomen - and how could a teacher speed this process up, besides
> > ensuring that you stick to a regular regime of increasingly challenging
> > exercies? Would a very well disciplined student stand to gain much from
the
> > pedalogical framework of a teacher?
> >
> > Of course, without a teacher once can not be inducted into the
traditional
> > lineage of shakuhachi teacher-student relationships,and an unbroken
> > transition of a cultural bounty of great beauty, which is undoubtably
> > something of tremendsous value. But from a strictly technical
persepective
> > - the value of a teacher above a good insturctional guide and
accompanying
> > disc is not apparent to me.
> >
> > I would enjoy hearing the persepctives others on this issue.
> >
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