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iamlowsound said:
Now listen here OP,
There is this thread that a fine man named maki wrote. It is for the summer posters, but I do think it applies to you as well. I suggest that you go find it and read it through a few times. Then, realize that no one read blogs, and no one really cares about your crying. We know all about this stuff that you bring up, but frankly, we don't care.

Either that, or I am an OT poster.

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No, people DO read my blog.

People do care about my crying. You must do a little bit, otherwise you wouldn't have made your super awesome post! Hoorah!

Same goes with the "don't care" comment as well, I guess. Intent to put fingers to keyboard. Well done, you.

If anyone wants to continue the subject of arrogant people putting down beginners on forums, you can continue the conversation on my forums if you so wish.

As I said, was just trying to promote discussion (which I did. Just not here)

Love and kisses to those that got involved and didn't flame.:)

Now, I'm gonna get back to my much loved topic of teaching people...
 
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Dmanlamius said:
If anyone wants to continue the subject of arrogant people putting down beginners on forums, you can continue the conversation on my forums if you so wish.
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Well there are 2 points :

1. There is good technique and bad technique
2. There is a right way to learn/develop

Experienced musicians come to realise how much time can be wasted doing things the wrong way and have a forlorn hope that they might be able to save beginners a whole heap of time and trouble - if they just get started on the right track!

Invariably though beginners see this as "arrogance" and go on to waste as much time as every previous generation...:(
 
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Bruce Lindfield said:
Well there are 2 points :

1. There is good technique and bad technique
2. There is a right way to learn/develop

Experienced musicians come to realise how much time can be wasted doing things the wrong way and have a forlorn hope that they might be able to save beginners a whole heap of time and trouble - if they just get started on the right track!

Invariably though beginners see this as "arrogance" and go on to waste as much time as every previous generation...:(
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Hello, again matey.

Yea that's a true and valid point, defiantly. But there are also times when people are shot down for asking simple questions, as what happened to one of my students.

He was told to not bother coming to this forum until he had at least learnt the major scale.
 
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Dmanlamius said:
Hello, again matey.

Yea that's a true and valid point, defiantly. But there are also times when people are shot down for asking simple questions, as what happened to one of my students.

He was told to not bother coming to this forum until he had at least learnt the major scale.
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Well I wouldn't bother asking theory questions if you hadn't even learnt the major scale...:eyebrow:

I often find that beginners get this idea that if they know what key they are in, then they can just pick random notes from that key and all will be well...:hmm:

So you get these apparently "simple" questions along the lines of "what key is this?" - which in fact are going about things completely the wrong way and it needs a lot more discussion to get to the point that they actually need to be addressing - like what is the chord sequence and what are good notes to play, to outline that sequence...:eyebrow:

A lot of the time, beginners are asking the wrong question - and get annoyed when this is pointed out! ;)
 
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