Klarinet Archive - Posting 000823.txt from 1998/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] A beginning teacher teaching beginners.
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:37:18 -0400

At 10:55 AM 6/24/98 EDT, JCLizmod wrote:
> I would recommend the Yamaha Band Student band method book for clarinets. I
>learned out of that book, and it has some interesting pieces to practice on.
>This book is great for beginners because it starts slowly and has the
complete
>fingering chart in the front of the book. This one also has a practice
>calendar on the second page. For students of the second year move on to
>Essential Elements Book One. This book shows you how to flat notes, play
>alternate fingerings for notes, uses rests often, emphasizes dynamics , and
>teaches all required note forms for second year: quarter notes, staccato,
>eighth notes, sixteenth notes, dotted quarter notes, and so on. Both of
these
>books are available for all instruments, so if you are thinking of something
>for beginning band students they are wonderful- they take the same exact
>pieces and drills and arrange them for each instrument. Played together in a
>band they are wonderful together. Also, these books progress with the
>students and you can skip over some, or rearrange the order if you like.
>Essential Elements book one has all of the major scales in it, and a
chromatic
>scale. This also holds a fingering chart in the back of it. I hope I could
>be of some help.
>
The Essential Elements series is the most widely used book among the
schools I service, but they all start beginners on book one. The Yamaha
series has just been extensively revised and renamed, although it retains
some of the same material.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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