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Intermediate lessons: please re-think how you group song fragments

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:51 pm
by LemurTech
Some lessons feature excerpts from several songs. This is not a problem in video (follow-along) sections. However, in the do-it-yourself practice sections that generally follow these, when you string two song fragments together (in different keys, even!) and expect the student to jump from one to the other (AT TEMPO, no less) to complete the lesson and earn the points, I feel strongly that you are pushing the limits of acceptable pedagogy.

Intermediate lesson 33 (Syncopation) is a case in point. You should break the Section 2 into a two separate sections. Thanks for listening!

Re: Intermediate lessons: please re-think how you group song fragments

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:28 pm
by dws
I strongly agree with this. I thought the lessons were perfectly laid out in terms of difficulty level until I reached this exact problem. I've made it a point not to skip over a lesson without 100% accuracy and now I'm scared I won't be able to achieve this :(

Re: Intermediate lessons: please re-think how you group song fragments

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 1:41 am
by owlman
Yeah what's up with this lesson. Is it really intentional? I agree the the previous posters that for an intermediate level lesson the songs should be split up, or at least put a rest between them!

Re: Intermediate lessons: please re-think how you group song fragments

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 6:16 am
by scirocco
You're best to contact them on Facebook. Forums are mostly dead as means of communication these days. The community group page is the most active.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/playgro ... ons/about/

Re: Intermediate lessons: please re-think how you group song fragments

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 3:26 am
by JohnnyP707
I also agree. I've been struggling with this and haven't used Playgroung Session in over a year because of the discouragement of failure.

Re: Intermediate lessons: please re-think how you group song fragments

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:19 am
by Mach13
Gulp! :( :o Lets hope they get to fix this before I get to that point... :shock:

Re: Intermediate lessons: please re-think how you group song fragments

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2018 1:27 pm
by DrKewel
100% agree

I joined to learn piano. Not to fight a computer.