[Dixielandjazz] RE: Advice to private instructors?

[Williams, Bob]

Sorry, didn't get to finish signing my name.

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Williams, Bob  
> Sent:	Monday, February 02, 2004 11:06 AM
> To:	'DJML'
> Subject:	Advice to private instructors?
> 
> Y'all:
> 
> I'm currently serving on the Education Committee of the Sacramento
> Traditional Jazz Society, mostly in a desperate effort to meet chicks.
> It's pretty sad, lemme tell ya.
> 
> One of the things our group does is control scholarships to young jazz
> students who apply and write compelling essays or otherwise curry our
> favo(u)r.  We do not control from whom the student receives instruction.
> 
> However, I asked if we had a list of subjects we would like to see
> covered, if the instructor were amenable to such advice, to prepare a
> student to be a better "trad" jazz player.  It turns out there is no such
> list, and as I was the idiot who axed the question, I was tasked with
> compiling one.
> 
> I therefore turn to my learned and occasionally bombastic friends on the
> DJML:
> 
> What kinds of study areas would you suggest to a private music instructor
> to help train a young student to become competent trad jazz musicians?
> 
> - Bob Williams
	The World's Most Modest Man for over 30 years