Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes


But I imagine someone sitting in a class, ignoring the teacher and his fellow students, surfing the Internet on his phone and periodically yelling out random questions based on what he finds. If you answer a specific question, he will pop his head up long enough to record your answer, argue with you, mention something he wants, then dive back into surfing the Internet (which he has called the "best teacher".)

Maybe I'm being unkind, but I see a serious problem with this approach to "learning",


I absolutely agree.


Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Swingbabymix,

Also, many of the Brazilian songs I work with may have four chords in the first measure, never mind the whole song. And for anyone who says it’s showing off; it’s not. It’s perfectly normal for the genre.


Also agreed. Brazilian musicians do that all the time, not only when composing, but also when playing live and reharmonizing on the fly.


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