flexible teacher who generally is just a very laidback, kind, not condescending person. Critically, the formal teachers this DC has had were deeply appreciative of existing skills and musicality, and of DC's quickness in acquiring new skills. Consequently, they adapted their teaching to the student, rather than following a pre-planned curriculum strictly.
This, 1000X this, is what we need. I thik it will be a disaster if we end up witha teacher who is a by the book, lesson a, lesson b, type of person. I mean, I don't know how much one MUST do this, with piano? Is there "wrong technique" that must be fixed when having self taught? She does know chords, which she learned somewhere... online I guess? She tells me can read bass clef, but she is slow. Not like reading treble on her main instrument. This seems pretty expected. (She was actually like, duh, mom, of course I can play bass clef. lol.)
