TOPIC: Class

Enjoyed class last week.

dcone, you must have been in a different class (eventhough you were sitting directly to my left!). I believe you were actually in Metaphysics 101 or just looking for a quick post!

The circle/beginnings instruction session was very valuable.

Learning is not necessarily comfortable. Learning requires a departure from ones comfort zone.

I also found the lesson on beginning a song very helpful!

I think the repetition of doing the song beginnings helped me the most. Even when we did it right, Fretmentor had us start over a couple of times more. That helps me to reinforce the lesson.

There's no doubt in my (military) mind that demonstration and repetition has a definite place in instruction. Last week, though the playing was only for 15 minutes or so, was great in that it was a reinforcing effort on something that has been spoken of for at least a year and a half, but only now getting concerted practice. It's like any class, once we leave the class environment we depart to our own little world of crisis and problems, etc, and something said in class can get swallowed up by requirements of life. Some more of that kind of instruction, as they say, "can't hoit!"