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How does one get the most out of a set of ukulele lessons? Have been playing for a few years so I can pick and play stuff, but certainly don't think I sound as good as I should. Seems that when an instructor asks what do you want to work on I don't have a good answer, except that I want to be better. It seems that paying an instructor $30 just to learn another song may not be the best value answer. But that seems to be what normally happens. Always hope that an instructor will have a crystal ball and tell me just what I need to improve on. I am on Maui right now where the instructors play very well but do not seem to be structured in their teaching technique. I wondered if there was a suggested approach to getting the most out of an instructor? Mahalo
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Yoik Approved 
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I'm not much of a musician, but I have had the opportunity to teach several physical skills at higher levels. I can tell you that as an instructor, I constantly tried to find the proper line between providing interesting and forward moving set pieces for my students, and drilling the basics. Drilling the basics makes for good technique in every way. It is the secret of all proficiency in physical skills. It's why martial artists use Kata, why baseball players use a batting cage, and why dancers use the mirror and bar. If I have a student who takes my lessons home and drills on them as I suggest, that student will be the one who excels. But set pieces keep students interested. They demonstrate the skills founded upon drill. They give the more tactile impression of progress that some students require to continue. Scheduling too few advancements of defined routines (like a new song) leaves you teaching to an empty room. I know that music has a deeper and more emotional method of development than many other physical skills, but I suspect that the same dilemma faces it's teachers, do you entice a new student by teaching them your favorite songs, new and interesting compositions? Or do you risk driving students away by demanding more drill on technique? I wouldn't blame a teacher who empathized the former over the latter, I've done it myself. But just being a good player doesn't make you a good teacher, teaching requires the discipline to lean on your students a little.
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neilg Approved
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artcrocker wrote: Seems that when an instructor asks what do you want to work on I don't have a good answer, except that I want to be better. Well, Yoik was eloquent and I'd like to address the sentence above: a good teacher generally won't ask you what you need to work on but will listen and tell you what needs improvement. The teacher will then give you either set pieces and/or basic technical exercises to help you improve what is lacking.
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