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Gill, I suppose I sound like I have a 'chip on my shoulder' over teaching by the dots and that is probably true but I do think that if you take a 4 year old and only teach them the dots then it will be difficult to reverse it later. Imagine learning to read and write before learning speech, we would...

Thanks for the advice; it will definitely be very useful. About playing by memory, nobody can do that, what I said was doing it through listening, that means that the ear has a different kind of sound memory and simply attempting to duplicate it is the only trick to learn. What surprises me is that ...

I am early retired from the computer industry and I am looking at getting into music teaching. I have a solo piano CD out and as a guitarist I am on a compilation CD and I am in the process of producing a CD playing the fiddle. I perform regularly at pubs, festivals etc so I can honestly say I have ...