Informal Learning and Aural Learning in the Instrumental Music Lesson: A Research-And-Development Pilot Project

Abstract

Kate (teacher): It's also actually, it's hearing, can you actually hear what's actually happening in the left hand, which is slightly more complex, but what's actually happening in terms of the layers of sound, can you just see-Edward: I know there are chords, but I'm not sure-Kate: Yes, just, listen to the left hand and just see what you can hear. (We all listen.) Edward: It's like before each chord there's a lower note that it goes up to that it kind of starts from, but, because that note's played at the same time as the right hand, it's kind of hard to work out. Katie (cello) lesson 8 "Eleanor Rigby" starts. .. Katie plays along. .. and she now has the final arpeggio. She plays well with a few places where she loses it but picks up again quite quickly, often right in the middle of a phrase.