basic music reading.....
plop out (in TABLATURE, with note names) for the student the chords (triads) that they are playing the simple melody over...
they know at a 100% level (!!!!!!) the names of the notes they are playing....
so......
then.....
it's awfully darn easy to start explaining theory with spoken language.....chord tones vs. non-chord tones, etc.....
....they can converse..
...they can ask...
...they can listen..
....they can test (do that old 'confirm person of authority is competent....then try like hell to prove he/she is wrong about something' thing that everyone in the world does....
try to begin from a point of incomplete understanding? Blah. Mapletrees doesn't want to play.
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