Lessons or just Practice!

Are you aware of what to expect taking these lessons? Of course, if your aim is just to occupy time then it should not matter where and who teaches you. Now if your aim is to improve and develop, you better be sure your lessons are for that.

For example, if you are learning Ballroom dancing, would learning the steps (routine) be enough to call it dancing lessons? Well and good if you already have the flair and gracefulness to dance, but if not, you better choose a teacher that does more than teaching steps.

How do we know if our piano teacher is giving us the right lesson or is just using the methodology of practicing the songs. Would it result to being able to play good any song or just the songs during the lesson.

This will be the similar case with singing teachers. Specially because the students have more or less been singing or using their voices prior to lessons. You could also be just learning more songs and not lessons for Voice improvement. Have you learned and developed the ability and skills to sing well? If you are only good on songs you learn with the teacher, then you can't really say you know how to sing. That means, you memorize how to sing the said song but have no idea to apply in other songs.

The real problem here is because you are just taught by memory. You were given the skill of how to do it but not the skill to hear. There were no principles and methodology.

In short, these teachers have got to know the real cause of the problem first, not the effect, before they recommend the proper solution. The key is this, the student should be made to understand the procedure and what's happening with the teacher.

So the question is this; Are you practicing with your teacher or you are being given an effective lesson?