Klarinet Archive - Posting 000659.txt from 1999/08

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Advice on student.............
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:39:35 -0400

Just one suggestion. Don't try to tackle everything at once. Take one
thing at a time and work to correct it. Trying to get it all is frustrating
for both student and teacher. Although I haven't taught clarinet, I have
taught martial arts and I had one 8 year old student who could not even tie
his own shoes. By working one detail at a time, he did not get discouraged
and I did not get frustrated. I asked his parents to by him shoes with
velcro fasteners as I was not, not, not about to tie his shoes for him after
class. The teaching was difficult enough. However, he did progress at a
slow but still reasonable pace and was able to pass his belt tests. He
continued as one of my students until my regular job required me to relocate
to another area.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

-----Original Message-----
From: GCalzati@-----.com>
Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: [kl] Advice on student.............

>Dear collective wisdom:
>
>I recently have just acquired a clarinet student who has been playing the
>instrument for 2 school years in the band program there.
>
>She has so many problems! She has never tongued, never listened to the
sound
>of her instrument, leans the clarinet on an angle and plays on her left
knee,
>puts the mouthpiece in her mouth and plays from the roof of her mouth, and
>has bad fingering position.
>
>She is an ambitious student though, bright and cute as a pin. She will be
in
>the 6th grade.
>
>I don't want to discourage her because all along she believed she has done
>great in band.
>
>Her basic theory skills; key signatures, rhythm, note names, etc., are all
>pretty good.
>
>Has someone ever had a student come to them in this bad of shape, what
>happened and what did you do?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Georgette Calzati
>
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