Steel Guitar Teachers

Jeff Au Hoy · From: Honolulu, Hawai'i

Since the non-pedal steel guitar is still very much a "folk" instrument, given the fact that there is no standardized approach to playing it... is it at all necessary to be concerned about whether those in teaching positions are educating in a "correct" manner? Steel learners (er, the people receiving the education...not the people who are educating

) are not afforded the same consistent technical literature, accredited coursework, or certified teaching as is say, the cello or french horn. JB has agreed with me that certain people should not be teaching steel guitar. Who or what decides that people are qualified steel guitar teachers?

Brad Bechtel · From: San Francisco, CA

1) Only if the teacher sucks.
2) The teacher decides if he or she is qualified. The student validates that decision by deciding whether or not the teacher is transmitting the knowledge they want to learn.

Since the steel guitar is a "folk" instrument (played by common folk, not in a conservatory), there are necessarily a number of ways to teach and learn. The "right" way depends on the student's ability to absorb what's taught as much as it does the teacher's ability to teach.

I suggest this is true regardless of what style of music you want to learn, and probably true regardless of whether you're learning steel, fiddle, violin, French horn or kazoo.

I'm moving this topic to Music since I feel it applies to more than non-pedal steel.

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