Running Your Teaching Studio A Guide For the Private Music Teacher. Ear Training . If you have a student that is having difficulties in learning to accept the challenges of making music, it could be helpful to point out some of the benefits of becoming a musician of excellence.
Music can build poise and confidence.
It teaches us self-sacrifice when we give our time for long and demanding rehearsals. We learn to blend our minds and voice with other singers and instruments into that most splendid of all cooperative activities, the making of music. We learn to appreciate things of beauty and develop aesthetic sensitivity and begin to expect of ourselves, the highest standards attainable. In this week's article, special attention will be devoted to proper posture, breathing techniques and placement. There are probably as many ways to teach as there are teachers, so keep in mind, that while these approaches and ideas may work well with one student, another student will need another approach for certain concepts and techniques to become internalized, whereupon the student truly has ownership.