Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 1999/10

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] What are some woodwind methods texts?
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:17:32 -0400

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Smith wrote:

> However, I also like a few factors about other band methods' clarinet
> books as well. Easy Steps incorporates some catchy tunes - clarinet
> melody - with a lick inserted that can make even the lamest in class
> seem pretty impressive to the kids on the other instruments.

Wow! I didn't think there was anyone in the world but me who knows about
and likes the "Easy Steps to the Band" method. But, I assume it isn't
available today. It was first published about 1938, I think, and in some
ways, it has never been surpassed. There is only one problem with the
method as far as the clarinet book is concerned, and that is that young
clarinetists can "graduate" from this book hardly knowing how to play or
even recognize the B natural on the third line.

Another older one that I liked a lot is the "Master Method" series by
Harold Peters and Paul Yoder, published by Kjos. I suppose it has gone
the way of the dinosaur, overcome by the glossy pictures and shiny covers
of some of the newer ones. Students can learn and perform exclusively
from materials in the Master Method series for the first four years or so
of their development, and if they did, they would be very well grounded in
fundamental techniques and knowledge.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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