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Mark Wein

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Very cool Mark. I have certainly found that when I show someone how to play something, I really have to focus on it, and I end up understanding and playing it better myself.

One question, when you had to learn the Yngwie stuff, did you already have the technique in place?..or did learning the material hone your technique...I'm asking as I always prefer to learn a real piece of music in order to improve technique rather than just play "exercises"....so, just learning say, the intro to "far beyond the sun" accurately, improved my picking more than any amount of 1,2,3,4 type exercise...

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Thanks!

 

I still don't have all the technique in place for the really technical stuff. Every so often I pick something like that to sharpen my skills.

 

I can play songs like "Black Star" pretty well but the crazier stuff is still out of my reach and as you can tell from my live videos I don't really play that way to start with...it really helps clean up my normal styles, though...

 

I think the only way to really get the technique "useful" for your playing is to try and play the music in addition to the technical drill . I ran scales and arpeggios for years without much progress but everytime I worked out an actual song I got better :)

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http://www.jemsite.com/blog/43-general/738-guitar-teacher-diaries.html


:)

What do you guys think, both teachers and students?



As a teacher, I typically feel like I learn as about guitar (and myself for that matter) as the student does.

My teaching philosophy is "To make the guitar teacher (me) obsolete to the student as quickly as possible."

When I work with a student, I try to establish these things:

-What are the student's goals? How can I best assist those goals?

-How does the student learn?

Much of my early lessons are about trying to figure those things out and laying out a game plan. From there, it becomes about trying to present the information in a way that the student is likely to understand while working to improve their weaknesses. Further down the road, it becomes more like a "mentor" relationship where the student teaches themselves and I oversee the process.

If I show a student something and they don't understand it (but they want to), it means I need to present the same idea differently, which means I need to understand it differently. That's why every student is the "teacher" to the teacher!

I try to teach in the way I like to be taught!

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Cheers!...the thing that you and Gennation have in your playing that I'm trying to get is the "authority"...whatever you play sounds mature and confident. I guess being teachers and playing so many styles must contribute to this. :thu:

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If I show a student something and they don't understand it (but they want to), it means I need to present the same idea differently, which means I need to understand it differently. That's why every student is the "teacher" to the teacher!


I try to teach in the way I like to be taught!

 

:thu:

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Cheers!...the thing that you and Gennation have in your playing that I'm trying to get is the "authority"...whatever you play sounds mature and confident. I guess being teachers and playing so many styles must contribute to this.
:thu:

 

I think that's part of it.

 

The other is that we both (and Jon Finn especially) have tons of performing experience where we have had to get it right the first time since someone was cutting us a check. I think having to perform like that makes you a more confident player because you HAVE to be...at least on the outside :)

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