[ddots-l] youngest student ever!
- From: Chris Smart <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:45:59 -0400
HI.
Has anybody here tought the absolute fundamentals of guitar to a
six year-old boy? I have a six year-old sighted student starting
this week at the music school where I teach. He has a half-size
acoustic, his mom says it's his idea and he's really kean, and
she'll be sitting in on lessons to help. It'll be one half-hour a
week.
I'm used to teaching people ten and up, usually in their teens.
Mom wants him to learn to read music as well, but I'm thinking the
best thing early on would be just to try matching sounds. Play a
high sound or a low sound, and get him to try to make the same
sound. Or maybe show him a chord and how to strum it, slow,
faster, down down down, up down up, etc. Is that a good place to start?
I don't even know how much information I should give in terms of
naming things ... should I even name the strings beyond just 1
through 6, i.e. letter names?
Should I start him off with, say, Mary Had a Little Lamb played on
a single string, in a few week's time, as a first goal to work towards?
Any and all suggestions are really appreciated. This will be most
interesting to me, as I'm used to just spitting out names and
numbers, or getting a teenager going with tablature right away.
I've never had to go right down to the absolute basics before.
Overall, I just want to keep this kid interested, so he sticks with
it long enough for him, and his mom, to see some progress, say by
Christmas time.
Thanks for any insights,
Chris
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