I used to think that it was fairly impossible to teach someone how to hear pitch or how to feel rhythm - they either came to the table with those abilities, or not. Maybe you could refine those senses, but if someone was "tone deaf" or had no rhythm, too bad.
Of course, teaching has helped me change my mind about that, but I still ponder the question, which is harder to teach? And which is harder to learn?
For a long time I thought that pitch was - okay, I'll admit it - impossible to teach. But then a student changed my mind - when she came to me, she had started learning violin at school and played nearly everything out of tune. So I started to teach her about resonant notes on the violin, and how to hear it when, say, a "D" played on the A string is so in tune that it gets the D string ringing.
To my delight (and I'll admit, to my surprise) - she listened, and she took this to heart. I could tell that she was doing this in her practice, too, and the intonation gradually started getting better. And then it started getting much better! I taught her to use a drone for scales, and she did it faithfully. It's hard for me to even believe that this student started out with such serious intonation problems that someone might have put the "tone deaf" label on her.
So at this moment in time (and I fully expect my views to evolve) - I feel that pitch is a little easier to teach than rhythm, at least for me!
What are your thoughts? Are pitch and rhythm inborn abilities? Is it possible to teach/learn them? Which is easier to teach or learn? Please participate in the vote, and then share your thoughts in the comments.
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