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A Tip for People Who Don't Speak English Well

tonymiceli 13 November 2021

So I teach some Argentinian students online. We always put on live captioning in Zoom.

Maybe you guys know this, but why not turn on zoom when you are watching a VW lesson.
Screen share the screen. Now you can watch the video and see the live captioning below.

Is that a good idea? Just thought I'd pass it on. It does not translate (yet), but you can at least here and read the english.

What do you think?

Story telling. Not taught so much any longer, but used to be a thing.

Randy_Sutin 12 November 2021

So, one of my early mentors was a pianist in whose band I played several times a week. Often we would be rehearsing one of his new tunes and he would comment on my solos. More than once he said some version of "Yeah, I hear that you're playing all the right notes and the changes, but I need to you tell a story. I need your phrases to make sense and mean something."

It was a thing. Your statements as a player were expected to sound meaningful and progress in a way that made sense.

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