How Muscles Learn provides information useful in helping teachers find productive techniques in teaching based on how muscles learn movement patterns. Muscles and bodies can and should be thoroughly trained before concentrating exclusively on musical outcomes. Contents include: the importance of good posture, range of motion and movement, muscles have memory: how movement patterns are acquired, proactive interference: its issues and effects. Each chapter includes helpful photographs illustrating techniques, helpful hints, exercises to practice the principles in each section, and musical examples.
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The author approaches the subject with unique knowledge of how muscles learn. She applies this to the WHY and HOW of playing a violin in ways that make great sense. I've read the book twice and heard her speak twice. I'd like to know more! It is a great resource to me in teaching beginning string players in public school.
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First off, a typo in the description. The book is actually 97 pages rather than 48.Although written primarily for teachers of children, I found `How Muscles Learn' very helpful for my self-study. The explanations and photos of posture and playing position are clear and easy to translate into adult terms. As the author says, it's as much about teaching the body as it is about teaching the music. Susan Kempter's premise is that physiology and kinesiology have much to offer violin players and teachers. Violin pedagogy, along with that of the piano, has a lengthy history with different schools of technique dominating during various eras. Certain ideas, such as the alignment of the elbow beneath the instrument and the position of the bowing arm to the body, continue to be handed down too often without the benefit of recent advances in body science. That said, the book is very hands-on and jargon-free. Children are very physical learners and the emphasis here is on practical doing rather than scientific explanation. There are a number of excerpts of pieces from the Suzuki books. I happened to have them but, if you don't, it's not difficult to find or arrange similar pieces that illustrate the same technical problems. I happen to enjoy working out the playing mechanics of different instruments at my own pace, making my way (however labyrinth-like) towards some basic technique. I'm neither a teacher nor a professional; I play with friends for my own enjoyment. I'd recommend the book to other self-learners with a similar exploratory bent who enjoy working things out for themselves.
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This review is from: How Muscles Learn: Teaching Violin With The Body In Mind (Paperback)
Teh book is a little lightweight. I finished it in less than 2 hrs. Basically, it is scientifiaclly explained, all the stuff your child's violin teacher told you about. Now that you know the reasons, you would probably be a little more vigilent when guiding your child. I recommend this book to all parents of young children learning the violin.
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Most violin teachers repeatedly tell their students to "stand up straight," knowing intuitively that good posture is the basis for good playing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
octave frame, left elbow movement, proactive interference, string crossing, bow hold, bow arm, radial deviation, ulnar deviation, violin teachers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Suzuki Violin School, Book One, Muscles Have Memory, The Two Grenadiers New!
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Most violin teachers repeatedly tell their students to "stand up straight," knowing intuitively that good posture is the basis for good playing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
octave frame, left elbow movement, proactive interference, string crossing, bow hold, bow arm, radial deviation, ulnar deviation, violin teachers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Suzuki Violin School, Book One, Muscles Have Memory, The Two Grenadiers New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Science of Violin Playing by Raphael Bronstein on page 85, and Back Matter
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta in Back Matter
- Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head by Carla Hannaford Ph.D. in Back Matter
- Manual of Structural Kinesiology by R .T. Floyd in Back Matter
- Manual of Structural Kinesiology by Clem W. Thompson in Back Matter
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