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Subject:
Self-taught as a child v. taking lessons as a child.
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Music Asked by: tnickey-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
09 Feb 2006 07:21 PST
Expires: 11 Mar 2006 07:21 PST Question ID: 443599 |
Who is likely to be more gifted as a pianist: The one who starts taking lessons as a child in reading music and playing the piano, or the one who is self-taught as a child to read music and play the piano? Also which of the two has the greater advantage in learning to play the piano? |
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Re: Self-taught as a child v. taking lessons as a child.
From: efn-ga on 18 Feb 2006 21:11 PST |
Gifts are innate by definition, so taking lessons would have no effect on giftedness. In general, the one taking lessons would have the advantage, but not necessarily in every case. |
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Re: Self-taught as a child v. taking lessons as a child.
From: tnickey-ga on 24 Feb 2006 09:20 PST |
Thanks for your response. :-). My interest is not in whether taking lessons are causative of giftedness, but rather in whether being self-taught as a child in playing and score reading might indicate greater giftedness than one who was not self-taught. |
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Re: Self-taught as a child v. taking lessons as a child.
From: tnickey-ga on 24 Feb 2006 10:05 PST |
Also another question might be: What advantages might the self-taught child have over one who was not self-taught? |
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Re: Self-taught as a child v. taking lessons as a child.
From: tnickey-ga on 24 Feb 2006 10:39 PST |
With respect to learning to play the piano and read music, might the self-taught child possess certain personality factors or other attributes that one who was not self-taught, but only lesson-taught, as a child, might not have? |
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Re: Self-taught as a child v. taking lessons as a child.
From: myoarin-ga on 24 Feb 2006 18:20 PST |
Last comment first: Yes, of course, a child who teaches him/herself to read music and play the piano will "possess certain personality factors or other attributes that one who was not self-taught ... might not have." I can imagine that this is much more likely to happen in the family of one or more serious musicians, where music and piano playing are very present, the child experiencing them like other children experience reading as a common skill. (But it is unlikely that in such a family the child would be left alone with its interest.) A child that did this in a less musically oriented family would - IMO - being showing a more unusual trait and special interest. Such a child would obviously have a greater interest in piano playing and would probably be a more enthusiastic student and show greater aptitude, an obvious advantage - and perhaps a sign of greater giftedness, whereby I think we need to differentiate between the gift of intellect - that the child chose to teach him/herself - and the gift of becoming a prodigy at the piano (at any age in life). Are there any great pianists who were not taught and coached? This is just one man's opinion. I hope it helps. |
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