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Wannabee -> RE: Juan Martin (Mar. 11 2007 1:36:41)
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As my username suggests, I am still learning myself, so my comments come from a student's perspective.
I use the JM book 1 as well as GM's and DK's books and I have done some on line lessons as well as "real live teacher" lessons....so here's what I think.
The good thing about JM's books is that he gives you lots of stuff to work on, lots of pieces, a wide range of palos to keep thing interesting.
The bad things... he doesn't explain some things very well; things like how the compas fits into each piece. Except for a couple of Sigerias pieces, there are no compas markings, so it's up to you to figure out where each beat should be.
That's not an impossible task, but it's also not the best for someone who is just learning to have no clue where 12 is for example.
Another drawback of the JM material is that the pieces are presented as a whole, so it gives the student the impression that it should be fixed like a classical work.
If the compas sections were clearly marked, students could better understand how to change things here and there (how to rearrange rhythmic sections between falsettas for example, or how to add falsettas from somewhere else)
Another drawback is that he doesn't slow down the more complicated pieces.
It would be a lot more effective if he gave slower versions of the level 4 and 5 stuff... for example.
I don't mean to dis JM's material, it is a good learning resource and I have learned a lot from it, but I have had to go to other sources first and try to understand compas, and falsettas and things before I could really understand what was going on in the JM pieces.
Anyway, that's my dos centimos.
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