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Trust your teacher in what she is doing, and how she is doing it. She will also know what technical things she wants to teach you, how, and when, both according to how she teaches, and what she sees. Your teacher will see the problems you are having, but if in doubt, you can mention those problems to her. Then she will have the solution she sees best suit you, again according to how she teaches. This is different than reading something on-line that other people do does or recommend, and asking her to do those things. I imagine that you have your own profession. You wouldn't want a customer to come in and ask you to do your work in a particular way because of what they read on-line - you have your own training and experience. So does a good teacher.
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Thank you for all your responses. I will continue to work with my teacher and practice. We are working through the Bastien books I have just started level 1. Although aimed at children I am still learning.
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We are working through the Bastien books I have just started level 1. Although aimed at children I am still learning. The books aimed for children go more in depth than the ones aimed for adults. Many of the adult books have an underlying premise that adults don't have the time and want to go quickly.
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Trust your teacher in what she is doing, and how she is doing it. She will also know what technical things she wants to teach you, how, and when, both according to how she teaches, and what she sees. Your teacher will see the problems you are having, but if in doubt, you can mention those problems to her. Then she will have the solution she sees best suit you, again according to how she teaches. This is different than reading something on-line that other people do does or recommend, and asking her to do those things. I imagine that you have your own profession. You wouldn't want a customer to come in and ask you to do your work in a particular way because of what they read on-line - you have your own training and experience. So does a good teacher. That's taking a lot for granted. What if the teacher is crap? In which case all that 'trusting' will just end in tears 
Laissez tomber les mains
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That's taking a lot for granted. What if the teacher is crap? In which case all that 'trusting' will just end in tears That brings us back to square one, where I was probably first in trying to get some information, and later objected to dmd's blanket (and somewhat routine) statement that if you follow your teacher, everything will go well. But if it is a decent teacher, then a student grabbing stuff from the Internet that is not understood, and insisting that the teacher teach those things in that way, this won't work. And if the teacher is not a decent teacher, they won't understand anyway. It's not a black and white thing, and not that straightforward. That's why when a new person comes in, I try to ask some questions. Dmd made a point to me that the student had only been there for 6 lessons - it's too soon - and that is a valid point.
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In my book you can't do accents without arm weight and yet presumably no accents in 6 lessons? Considering the plethora of poor teaching out there PW has some validity (as long as posters stay away from have-a-go teachers).
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