I have relatives who are musically talented. Like at the honors level! College level, honors level!
So, I CAN give you advice on what type of music teacher is good for your student, and what type of music teacher is bad for your children.
Don't take talent for granted. It is a gift from the heavenly father (King David was gifted in music, hence the book of Psalms)
1. General Character of the teacher. If there is no character, there will be problems. Angry? Yelling? Fearful? (This is MORE important, than the skill or ability of the teacher) Saul was an angry man at talented David the Harp player.
2. A general singing group that simply sings hymns and promotes it from home is a WONDERFUL resource. Use that resource if at all possible. (Anabaptist singing groups are around, and you don't have to be Anabaptist to appreciate this)
3. Attitudes towards "immigrants" per say. Do they believe in letting EVERY IMMIGRANT across the border, or do they believe in "checking" the character of the people before coming? Would they like to GO to the Immigrant's home country and teach music (as in willing to suffer) or do they want the wicked stuff to come here? For a teacher that is "dreamy," and not thinking of others, that teacher believes that all people are "teachable" when infact they have "murder" and "lawlessness" on the mind and heart.........no man or woman can teach those type of people. It takes much psychology and suffering to get evil intentions out of people......(where did all the native americans go again????.....oh yeah.....genocide)
4. Are they interested in obscenity culture or do they confront those issues? If they are trying to promote entertainment with a lot of obscenity, that is a red-flag. If they are promoting ungodly law-less types of marriages that is another red-flag.
5. Do they see music as THE ONLY way for a child to make an income, or do they see music as something "nice" that can help in the child's ability and multiple talents? Do they see music as a basic cultural commodity (like that within various tribes on the earth)?
Basically go through a little interview with the music teacher. A music teacher DOES in fact AFFECT your child's heart! Yes, your child must TRUST this teacher when they are put up for "embarrassment" on stage. You are putting MONEY into this teacher. You are putting TIME into this teacher. If the teacher doesn't value YOUR FAMILY and YOUR VALUES, then why are you putting so much time and money into them????
The interview with this teach could go something like this: Do you ever get angry with students or at own family life? Do you support singing hymns from home? Does everything musical need to have a lot of Obscenity in it? How do you feel about immigrants? so on and so forth.
Music DOES have advantages on the child's mind (it allows higher percentages in knowledge tests). So music is good for those interested in keeping the child skilled in wisdom and knowledge. If the specific music teacher is NOT available in your area and matches YOUR FAMILY VALUES, then the other options are simply this:
1. Sing regular hymns at home. Sing often while doing basic chores! Have hymns play from your electronic devices. HEARING music from home-life envelops the child's life!
2. Choose an on-line piano teacher. If the child is picking up on music things from the "computer teacher" then they are picking up on the music from a basic computer, they are not as likely to "understand" or "absorb" the values of the teacher giving the lessons, even if the values do not match family values.
3. Delay "difficult" music skills until the child is over the age of 12. At about the age of 12 the child will need to decide his or her own personal values. When the child can compare the life-styles of the teacher to the life-styles of godly people (perhaps those that are not really that political in their ways of being, or those who have suffered much), then the child can decide that CHARACTER is a more valuable resource than just general music-skills.
4. When the child is approaching college age and the child shows significant talent in music over his or her peers, simply ensure that the child is aware of overall MORAL conditions within as being more valuable than getting a special "degree" from a "special college." One student, discovered this principle early in her college career and wrote a book about it: Chucking College.
5. Don't encourage children to have "bad attitude" towards music as a whole. There are many good things that a child can gain from learning classical music. Learning a piece of music written by BACH will NOT negatively impact a child in an ungodly sense. Learning Handel's "Messiah" will NOT push a child through the belief in -Catholocism- as the ultimate resource for spirituality. Music is a "neutral" force, and CAN be used as a "godly" thing, if appropriately applied to life. There IS more potential in humanity, and even in Holywood (if they get rid of obscenity), with the appropriate use of music, than people realize.
6. Being SUCCESSFUL in music is MORE dependent on CHARACTER, than it is dependent on SKILL base even in the modern technology world. Charlie is "loved" by his fans, even though he is "average" in college level academics..... as noted in 4:10-4:20 ..... he says he scored 1200 SAT....which is pretty average.
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