Klarinet Archive - Posting 001051.txt from 1999/04

From: "Carl & Polly Anderson" <DClarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] helping students learn scales?
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 23:07:42 -0400

Gary, I use scales in different patterns, i.e. play the C scale in 5 note
patterns beginning on low e (e-f-g-a-b-a-g-f-e) repeat this pattern 3-4
times changing articulation on each pattern and ending on low e as a whole
note, then start on f.
Go up the entire c scale this way. and then play a straight scale. Another
way is add-a-note, (c-d-c-d-e-d-c-d-e-f-e-d-c-d-e-f-g-etc. play one octave
and at the end go to the lowest note in the scale and back to the starting
note. Then the second octave and finally the 3rd. Each time go to the
lowst note in the scale and back to the starting note. I find these work
pretty well in making scales a bit more fun and challenging.
Carl Anderson
DClarinet@-----.ccom
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Smith <garysmith@-----.com>
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: [kl] helping students learn scales?

>Hello all
>
>I teach private lessons. My current crop of students are mostly 2nd-3rd
>year junior high students.
>
>I'm a firm believer in scales as a tool to help with sight reading,
>intonation, overall command of the instrument -- I don't think anyone here
>really needs to be sold on the merits of learning scales. I have discovered
>a lot of resistance to learning scales in otherwise fairly diligent
>students, and I was wondering what approaches others are using.
>
>I've tried to start by teaching the order of sharps and flats, the circle
>of 5ths, and of course have provided them with scale sheets. I've found
>that week after week the students just don't seem to have spent time with
>the material such that I could identify specific problems and help them
>with them - they just don't seem to have practiced.
>
>This points to motivation, of course. Any ideas or success stories?
>
>
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>
>
>Gary Smith
>garysmith@-----.com
>
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