Comments on: teaching drums without the teacher https://mendellee.com/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/ composer • performer • educator • entrepreneur Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:05:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: TMI in our digital age » darkblog resonate https://mendellee.com/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-2216 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:54:02 +0000 http://www.darknote.org/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/#comment-2216 […] that i feel serves as positive enrichment versus progress-hindering. A while back i wrote a reaction to the Robotic Drumstick Haptic Guidance System, and i still stand by its thesis that such a device is poorly conceived as a pedagogical tool and […]

]]> By: Megan https://mendellee.com/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:05:47 +0000 http://www.darknote.org/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/#comment-8 (Afterthought) additionally regarding the human-component: it also can boost one’s self of competence/skill/morale/what have you when another person (instructor) with whom you have been working/practicing/labouring can share with you the progress they’ve seen in that effort.. saying how things have improved, still need work, etc. Being told my strike is 18% more accurate just wouldn’t have the same effect.

Am I making any sense? My brain feels kinda squishy today.

…..man I miss being a musician… :) get over here and get me re-acquainted, mister… :)

]]> By: Megan https://mendellee.com/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:30:36 +0000 http://www.darknote.org/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/#comment-7 To be honest I only gave the article a quick read and I’m not sure I’m clear on how exactly it works.. But assuming I get it, I agree on several of your points. Ultimately too there’s just something to be said about having in person instruction that doesn’t translate though robotics. So much more expertise can come through a person that tecnhology does not provide. Absolute rigid form does not always make the best music. If a person doesn’t have innate musical tendencies or skill, I don’t think this contraption would allow for one’s own musical growth and experimentation.

Since I’m at work I can’t expand, but essentially I’d take a person instructing me over this thing any day.

]]> By: ruxtomikron https://mendellee.com/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:31:23 +0000 http://www.darknote.org/2008/03/12/teaching-drums-without-the-teacher/#comment-6 beautifully stated. i love the type of insights you devise when approached with concepts like this. it goes far beyond the awe-struck approach you can imagine the creators of this device were going for.

you were definitely a student of jeff’s.

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