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Originally Posted by Grimreaper204  Just read a bit of the thread but to tell you the truth sometimes telling kids that they are horrible will help them improve their skills. I get really ticked off when parents are at sport games and say "thats alright" or "nice effort", screw that, that won't make them get better that will make them think they are doing it right. For me if someone says I'm garbage at something it just makes me want to prove them wrong and I work 10 times harder to learn it and to perfect it just to show them up. Just my 2 cents though  |
Hi, I'm new on this forum as of today, but I don't agree with some of what you're saying there.
There might be some truth to the last part about working harder because of harsh criticism, but I think that CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is the way to go when teaching or commenting. I am NOT at all advocating superficiality and insincerity, but I think that criticism in general should be helpful and not a deck in the face.
Giving no praise to someone who you didn't think sounded good is a good teaching and beneficial "tactic." A reward, being praise, is a good option to good performance and I think works to the benefit of anyone still learning (everyone).
Someone earlier made a comment about training dogs and (correct me if I'm wrong) applied it to teaching or drumming... but I have to say, humans are in fact, humans...not dogs. I agree that the concept can be applied to drumming and learning : )