LOA Approach
A search lead me to the essay written by Mark Heffington. I believe I met him last month in San Jose. Very encouraging information. I was searching for how best to use LOA as that's the approach I plan to follow. My question is should each study in a level in the be completed before moving to the next study? For instance, should the song in Level 1 be finished before music theory or should these be approached concurrently? Thanks!
Thanks! The obvious assumption then is that each level should more or less be completed before moving onto the next level. One more question. The movement and scales section in level 1 indicates go up to 1.7 but there's more material than that. Should the rest be considered optional?
You're speaking of the Solo Harmonica Study 1 section. You will continue your study of that material in later LOA's. If you really like that material (and many do like the Solo Harmonica material... I do) feel free to dig into all of it now, but in regards to LOA it's spread over levels. In some cases I don't move on due to that a technique hasn't been taught yet, like in the Section 2 material it uses the Pull, and I don't "officially" teach that until Tongue Block Study 3 (LOA-L4), so you can continue through the material, but you'll need to cross reference material sometimes to fill in the gaps in your technique.
I'm starting to understand that the LOA approach isn't necessarily about a complete lesson but that you've picked the most applicable parts of a lesson for a Level and given us instructions as how to best use the lesson for our current skill level. Over time the complete lesson will be covered.
You got it! You're of course welcome to study anything (at your skill level) at any time... feel free to go deeper in a subject if it's of current interest, but LOA is always there to help you when you're not sure what to work on next. Best wishes on your studies.
Good morning SmokeJS. You are correct, study them concurrently.