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our distance teaching:
live!

… no need to travel to your teacher's place,
not even fresh snow can stop you
the fares are not tax-deductible anyway.

Read about some characteristics of our teaching concept,
which is in fact nothing else than a downright natural, self−evident teaching of skills.
We want to make music with our instrument or our voice. The most elementary part is the ability to envision the "what do I want to do on the instrument" and it is the part that too often falls short.
We can say that having had our own experiences with musical instruction as students. And we see many pupils after years of conventional teaching - the outcome being disastrous.
Simply knowing that a "composition" is an interaction of very different elements opens up the possibility of training much more efficiently. And if you cannot spare hours each day for practise you can make a choice:
Either being on the wrong path, constantly having a bad conscience, despite sacrificing many hours, without an enjoyable result
or being led to success with clear and definitive guidelines !

Our students don't practise in a dull way but work selectively, improving in each field. It's a kind of training that is popular with athletes, too. Technique, rhythm, general musical comprehension, peculiarities of the instrument, structure of a composition, improvisation …
It is too big a subject to be left without guidelines.

Of course, a teacher could also simply follow the pupil's ideas.
That would indeed be an easy way of teaching.
Most important: the student may never guess there could be a better teacher than he himself. Don't we know these enchanted kind of records:

„Mister K. from M. has helped me so much with his tips n tricks. I was just operating my own gallstones when he told me about mirror−inversion. From that minute on I was truly able to continue the operation at the gallbladder."

That is trouble−free, the fees keep coming for some months and one day it's clear:
"All sound and no fury."

We want to offer an alternative: to the ones that were on the road too long, they should get a serious opportunity to reach their goal together with an enthousiastic, knowledgeable teacher.
When we started distance teaching - indeed it was 17 years ago
(and yes, we have read now and then about others offering an unheard−of novelty - distance instrumental instruction)
we worked with audio−recordings, giving feedback aswell. That was possible, because these students started on-place and wanted to continue studying here at any rate after a move. So we knew each other and had an impression. From time to time the student made his way to our house to have a "live"-lesson.
That would not have been a solution for someone we had never met before.

Today we luckily have a medium at almost everyone's disposal: video−conference.
Maybe it is sufficient to HEAR mistakes, but it won't hurt to SEE why.
It is not our business to mail ready−made "courses", directing the student's questions to a FAQ page.
(even though it appears to be the secret way to making a fortune)