Next time...

I decided that this semester was a somewhat failure. This is the only the beginning however. The problems with this time around is that the people I have chosen are not very efficient when it came to academic work. I threw them away because they were not doing well. It was also a fail in my part. I also couldn't handle the amount of work school held me. The problem was that there was not enough time to do everything I wanted. I'm going to do things differently next time around. I decided to cut back on the students I teach and the number of days I teach them. This is the only solution I could come up with. If there are any ideas, I would take them without hesitation. Take in mind that this is to help me teach more to learn and prosper.

Hiatus

Lately, there has been a trend that i began to follow that has made me too busy. I started doing poorly in my job to teach due to the fact that I don't have any extra time. Poor defined as not teaching anyone. There were sacrifices that had to be made. To teach others or to pick up my grades.

It would be hypocritical of me not to take the lessons of my posts. So I went into a hiatus in order to pick up my grades. As explained in my last blog, it is important in the learning of drums but it is only a privilege to do so. Currently, I am working on papers and finishing up my work in a complete way.(Quality of the work is not important right now.)

Of course, there is another lesson to be learned from this. The importance of the teacher doing well. It is a necessity for the teacher to do well in whatever conflicts there are in his life. It could be from doing homework to experiencing an emotional breakdown. This could affect the learning of the students because they are learners. If they know their teacher can't handle work, then they would find it as an excuse to also do it. I know this personally. So right now, I am in a hiatus until my situation gets better.

The Set Up

I have been meaning to point out the 1st set up of my students. There are differences in where they like to angle the cymbal or the way they place a snare as shown by the two pictures. The start is not only an important part of development but also shows the change in one's set. Just as one changes from being Liberal to Socialist. How did one get from point A to point B. Obviously, these set ups are going to change. They may move a couple things but nothing major since they seem comfortable playing as is. Once one realizes that it is a long journey they have experienced, they will be glad they have had lessons. It is like a sense of seeing a yearbook 20 years after one graduates. The feeling that one receives is special. Special in the fact that they are glad they did it and want to do other things. This effect is what I'm trying to get at. Once I started playing drums and got the sense of it, I wanted to learn other things and in fact, I am learning the piano. The effects and magnitude of it!