Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 1999/09

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Another Teaching question (rhythm)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:57:37 -0400

How about a football helmet and drumsticks a la Mr Holland's Opus?
<]:o)
I STILL think my son learns all his rhythms by rote for every piece, and
his foot taps have NOTHING to do with the tempo of the music etc.
However, he CAN swing dance and march. He claims his marching band
experience was good for his rhythm...
He's now playing his second year in a college concert band.
Paulette
<==ooo'=ooo;;=<)

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:12:48 -0700 "Sherry Katz" <slkatz@-----.com>
writes:
>
>>
>> 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...
>>
>---
>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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