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Hello, how are you all doing? I would like to ask for some advice, if you don’t mind, in the area of teaching methodology. But first, I need to give some context so you can better understand the situation. Context: I learned to play the violin at church. I’ve been playing in church since I was 9 years old (I’m 23 now). By the way, the church is called Congregação Cristã no Brasil (Christian Congregation in Brazil). And obviously, since it’s all done on a voluntary basis (in our church, no one gets paid), both for those who teach and those who play, the teaching methodology may not be the best. Basically, we had a general violin technique book (Schmoll, Lambert, Laoureux, Suzuki) and a book with the church hymns (Hymnal). I went through all those books and a few more, mostly because I spent a long time learning. But nowadays they want to stick to the Schmoll method (they’ve made some modifications to it and added some Hans Sitt pieces — I’ll add a link below in case you want to check it out). The general approach is to start with the method book (teaching material), and once the student begins to understand notes, they start learning hymns. Unfortunately, there are very few instructors (we don’t call ourselves “teachers” because we are not formally trained), and most of them don’t assign anything to study outside of these two sources. Now that I’m an instructor myself, I really want to help my students in the best way I can. I teach students of all ages — from little kids who can’t even read yet to older brothers who are married with children — though most of them tend to be children and young people. I’ve never had face-to-face lessons with a professional teacher — just a few tips here and there. I even tried online lessons, but they were too expensive for my financial situation, and the teacher would mostly just ask for videos and then reply with written feedback. It helped, but not as much as I’d hoped. Still, I was able to get an idea of what a methodology looks like, because he assigned Sevcik and some beginner-level concertos to practice. The Problem: At church, the teaching works like this: for example, in my case, on Saturdays at 2:00 p.m., our musical study group starts. Ideally, all students should arrive at the same time, and then I go over their lessons in the order they arrive. I usually spend about 30 minutes with each one to really help them. To avoid having them come in “cold” when it’s time to play their lesson for me, I usually ask them to do: stretching, a right-hand exercise and a left-hand one, open string exercises, then to review what they’re going to play, and also, after the lesson, to briefly(15min) review at church what I just taught them — to help them retain it. But I’d like to improve all of this — I just don’t have a solid foundation to build on. I thought about changing it so instead of doing the full 30 minutes with each student right away, I’d spend the first 10 minutes checking what’s missing in their current study and then ask them to work on that while I check on the others — and then later come back for 20 minutes to work on what’s left. But when I tried that, it felt like I ended up taking more time overall. I’m open to any kind of advice, links, videos, books related to technique, methodology, or anything else you feel might be important. Also, I’m about to start giving private lessons today. I have some idea of what to do, but I’d appreciate any tips on that as well. I’m already very thankful to anyone who’s willing to help me — may God bless your life and your family! In anex: Actual book used for teaching violin Book of Hymns that we play at church. List of things that i suggest my students to do at home, i created it. www.CCBemPDF.com _ Hinário Nº5 CCB para Cordas.pdf MÉTODO de Violino - CCB Schmoll.pdf SchedueleViolin.pdf
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Hello Guys, since here, for me, looks like has more people i would like to share my topic of teaching if someone has anything to help im very grateful. God bless us all!
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We really like the violin, we spend a lot of time on the violin after lessons, and even after practicing. We need to make use of technologies to gain different aspects of views towards violin techniques, so most of us have seen some online, no matter the teacher is famous pedagog or a low key teacher. Who are your favorite teachers, when you don't want to bother your own teacher after lessons, or when you want to learn more things online? Mine are Lora Staples and Kurt Sassmannshaus!! Lora Staples is very low key and approachable, but her explanations are very, very clear and she thinks with different aspects, and she always has a cure for people's difficulties. Kurt Sassmannshaus is a lot more famous and serious, his videos are condensed with the most important knowledge and theories. not one word is redundant When I feel insecure and need to refresh my basics, I always watch Staples; when I am learning advanced techniques and feel like I cannot do it, I visit Sassmannshaus videos. (Of course, I do not jsut blindly follow everything they say! everybody have different physiques and musical tastes, so I always think critically)
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I guess take this with a spoonful of salt. As written in http://www.throwcase.com/2014/10/27/student-has-amazing-breakthrough-by-doing-what-teacher-says/ "John Man is a young violinist who has been struggling for years to overcome his limitations as a musician. Though graced with some talent and a degree of innate musicality, Man has always found it difficult to play with the sort of polish and professional mastery shown by his colleagues. “I tried just playing the way I want over and over and over again, hoping that it would get better,” he said. “It never did! It was like, the more I played it the same way the more it would sound the same. What could I do?” Finally, out of sheer desperation, Man started doing what his teacher had been telling him to do in every lesson for the past five years. “The results have been incredible!” said Man. “It’s as if following the advice of an older, more experienced musician allows me to somehow cultivate effective working habits better than my own.” We spoke to Man’s teacher, Dorothy Schnupsky, whose teaching philosophy revolves around a concept she calls The Job. “As musicians, our Job is to play the music as musically as possible,” she said. “So if you look at things like the notes, and perhaps the dynamics and phrase markings, and basically every other instruction that has been dutifully laid out on paper using a sophisticated and clear system of notation developed over centuries, then your playing will improve. I charge an hourly rate to say this.” Man also took inspiration from his roommate Bob Guy, who is studying to be a doctor. Guy reportedly spends hours studying facts until he knows them, because he eventually hopes to use those facts saving lives. “When Guy encounters a complicated fact he really tries to understand what it is, rather than hitting it over and over again very fast until skills develop,” said Man. “He doesn’t stop to tell anyone how difficult it is and which other doctors do it the best and how the love of doctoring is in his blood, he just works at it until he gets better. He has such a talent.” Man is very pleased that he no longer needs to use his old system of learning things, which he called The System. This required him to smoke frequently, evoke his greatness unintentionally with suggestive anecdotes, and always insist that other musicians do not have “feeling.” Now that he has discovered Schnupsky’s approach, he will soon find true happiness."
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