kas
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Hi:
I've been teaching a local High School girl, who has already had many years of piano training, to play organ. She loves it and has learned her way around the console relatively quickly. The biggest problem has been learning to incorporate pedals with the manuals parts. This is presenting coordination problems and is coming slowly.
The amazins thing is, if I have her only play pedal parts, she can do it. She has an incredible spatial feel for the pedals. I can ask her to randomly play any combination of notes I think of, and she puts her feet right on the correct pedals....never looks down once. Isn't this a bit of an unusual ability for a beginner? Especially being that she is not really using pedals yet in any of her music!
Any tips or advice on teaching organ would be welcomed. I've played for many years and am currently organist at my church (Pennsylvania, USA), but this is my first time teaching someone. It's been a great and rewarding experience. I am a public school instrumental music teacher, so the pedagogical aspects of this are second-nature to me.
Best,
KAS
I've been teaching a local High School girl, who has already had many years of piano training, to play organ. She loves it and has learned her way around the console relatively quickly. The biggest problem has been learning to incorporate pedals with the manuals parts. This is presenting coordination problems and is coming slowly.
The amazins thing is, if I have her only play pedal parts, she can do it. She has an incredible spatial feel for the pedals. I can ask her to randomly play any combination of notes I think of, and she puts her feet right on the correct pedals....never looks down once. Isn't this a bit of an unusual ability for a beginner? Especially being that she is not really using pedals yet in any of her music!
Any tips or advice on teaching organ would be welcomed. I've played for many years and am currently organist at my church (Pennsylvania, USA), but this is my first time teaching someone. It's been a great and rewarding experience. I am a public school instrumental music teacher, so the pedagogical aspects of this are second-nature to me.
Best,
KAS