Why Use Different Methods to Teach the Same Subject?
In teaching music there is a perception that you need to teach adults with different methods than children. My experience is, that although you need to adapt to the maturity level for any given subject, the methods used to teach children can and are as effective for adults. Lets take the case where I learned the music master staff along with other adults and children. The Old When I was young I was taught with the pneumonic methods of FACE and Every Good Boy Does Fine. Although it worked to a point it never went far enough to give a solid basis in recognition other than to relate lines and spaces and a word game. The New Years later I started from scratch with a teacher promoting power learning techniques. The technique used was in story telling creating a new land that explored music. The story wove a tail of patterns and associations that put the entire master staff in perspective. The Testing When I later talked about why the adults were taught with the children in this group settin
