Siegmund
Well-known member
Like it says on the tin. Just interested in hearing some different viewpoints or experiences here.
There are quite a few skills where it is common for very inexperienced people to teach for a living. (Learning to fly an airplane is one such example, in the USA: a great many people who want to be pilots are students for their first 250 hours, teachers from 250 hours to 1500 hours, and then move to a "real job" with an airline or a government agency.) On the other hand, when I played violin, even when I was playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star my teachers all had college music degrees and were good enough to be first chair in a community orchestra or the middle of the pack in a lower tier professional orchestra.
How soon did you feel ready to teach a beginner?
How long did you have to play before you were sure you wouldn't be teaching unintentional bad habits?
There are quite a few skills where it is common for very inexperienced people to teach for a living. (Learning to fly an airplane is one such example, in the USA: a great many people who want to be pilots are students for their first 250 hours, teachers from 250 hours to 1500 hours, and then move to a "real job" with an airline or a government agency.) On the other hand, when I played violin, even when I was playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star my teachers all had college music degrees and were good enough to be first chair in a community orchestra or the middle of the pack in a lower tier professional orchestra.
How soon did you feel ready to teach a beginner?
How long did you have to play before you were sure you wouldn't be teaching unintentional bad habits?