Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 1999/09

From: "Sherry Katz" <slkatz@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Another Teaching question (rhythm)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:18:47 -0400

>
> I have a student who just entered 7th grade. He has been studying sax
with
> me for about 10 months by now. He is extremely dedicated and a joy to
> teach. HOWEVER, he has absolutely no sense of pulse, time, beat, etc...
>
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I am actually one of those people who has an horrendous sense of time. What
has really helped me enormously is to get one of those Dr. Beat metronomes
that can be set to have a voice count off the time - even to half beats,
triplets, etc. It will even say beats louder to accent them. If I take a
piece and go at a very slow pace letting the metronome call out "one and two
and three and four" over and over, eventually I start to get it. I have
found this has even worked with pieces with very complex syncopation.

Another thing that has helped me is to use software like Band in a Box and
to turn on the melody voice while I play along with it. If I get the rhythm
mixed up I can hear it right away.

Finally, I think the best thing to do is to some extent just let it go.
He'll get to the point when getting the rhythm right matters to him. When
it does he'll be ready to work on it.

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