What about in learning an instrument, any advice on how the instructor should appraoch the novice musician.
My own personal experience with ear training classes was a drag, it wasn't until I purchased one of those portable half speed tape decks and started transcribing jazz solo's that it all started to come together. At 1st I would be struggling through with the tape running at half speed all the way through, then after awhile I would use it less and less until I finally didn't need to turn it on at all. I also made it a practice to transcibe a lot of non guitar stuff: saxophone, piano, even bass solo's (Jaco plays some mean s**^*%*!! I found that helped a lot.