After learning music for sufficient time if the student quits learning and practicing for some reason or other, should s/he once again start from the beginning?
If the student has had a good basic training there will be no need for training once again. The student would need only to brush up and go further. • Is one-to-one in music learning efficient? Only at an advanced stage. In the beginning one to one learning may tend to isolate the student from a more meaningful group context where the student will have psychologically more secure environment and a challenging partnership with other learners. Special individual cases (who may be weak in many aspects) would need special individual attention before they can be put in a group. • Can one learn music efficiently in a group? Normally the group situation is better both for children and adults when the composition of the students is fairly compatible. If there is less compatibility (for example joining a student in a group in the middle) it will not be productive. The intake of the students in a group should be carefully chosen. The gradation should be such that the learning time for each studen
