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Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter!
Written and Published by Nicholas Ambrosino
www.musicsimplymusic.com
mailto:director@musicsimplymusic.com

April 5, 2002

Table of Contents:

1. MTIPS Theme
2. Welcome Notes
3. MTIPS Development
4. Notable Quotables

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1. MTIPS Theme

It is the teacher’s responsibility to increase the sensitivity of the student’s
musical awareness so that the student’s musicianship demands he uses the
proper technique.
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2. Welcome Notes

Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter!

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MTIPS is a FREE monthly newsletter that’s goal is to provide piano teachers
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3. MTIPS Development

Many teachers teach technique simply for the sake of the technique, with
hopes that later in your musical studies, the student will need the technique.
I don’t believe in teaching technical lessons until the student needs the
technique to create a certain sound.

It is the lack of the musical element (an element that is experienced by
listening) that propels us into learning the technique. For instance, that is the
time to learn about lifting the hand off of the keyboard, i.e. utilizing hand
weight. The time to really key in on this technique, is when the student
hears the difference between an accurate performance of the piece
(hopefully the teacher’s!) and his own performance.

The time to speak about fingering is when the student’s fingering causes a
break in the musical phrase and the student’s awareness is such that he
recognizes this break. The fingering error should be recognizable by sound,
not by sight. I.e. the teacher should be able to hear the “wrong” fingering
without looking at the student’s hands. If you can not hear the “wrong”
fingering without viewing the students hands, then why is it “wrong”?

It is the teacher’s responsibility to increase the sensitivity of the student’s
musical awareness so that the student’s musicianship demands he uses the
proper technique. The moment the student’s own musical sensitivity
recognizes the break in phrase due to a weak fingering, the teacher will never
have to speak about fingering again, because the student will want to find a
more effective fingering in order to create a more accurate musical product, a
product that appeals to his sense of musicianship and expression.

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4. Notable Quotable

How do you develop the leaders of tomorrow? Simple: You teach.
That's different from giving a speech in a companywide meeting or
giving orders to a subordinate. That's not teaching; that's dictating.
- Chuck Salter in Fast Company Magazine

About the Submitter:
Submitted by Diana Robinson, PhD., CCG., who can be reached at
Diana@ChoiceCoach.com, or visited on the web at
http://www.ChoiceCoach.com

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