I evaluate perspective student's to find who is innately talented.
For those that already know they have innate talent; simply find a teacher that likes this teaching method and make some wonderful sounds. The world needs it.
I evaluate for free because of the love of seeing new percussion players manifest.
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828-712-7552
I start by showing the student some basic rhythms. Sometimes conversation helps when student attempts these rhythms. The conversation starts with 2 questions.
1) What does the student consider percussion to be?
2) Why does the student want to play a particular instrument?
There are students that have an immediate easy time with basic rythms. So in learning specific beats, some of them can advance faster and easier than conventional teaching methods. They first need to be with the right kind of teacher. These teachers are all over the world.
The teaching method is----First, the student chooses the style of music to be played and brings to the first lesson a recording of their favorite song or rhythm. A teacher of that particular style immediately starts some advanced rhythms. I've repeatedly seen that many students can follow the teacher really well within minutes.This happens because of three reasons. (1) the student's innate ability, (2) the student's chosen music obviously inspires them and (3) the teacher's brilliance inspires them.
Of course, only the greatest of the student's remember what they did the next day when their music isn't playing and the teacher is gone. But with enough lessons, all the students advance to some degree.
