Klarinet Archive - Posting 000669.txt from 2000/04

From: webler1 <webler1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: Tone - the quick way
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:22:34 -0400

Since I have started teaching full time, I have had the opportunity to take
over about 11 students from other teachers. The teachers left the store
that I was teaching at and I received their students. I have the statement
made by Patty to be very true. In the end I will probably loose a quarter
of them because they do not want to make the necessary adjustments in order
to break some of the bad habits they have adopted. I've heard things like;
why should my ligature be straight, I'm not going to breath the way your
teaching me because that's not natural, I don't want to use the keys on the
left side because its confusing, I don't want to practice the staccato
exercise because it breaks my concentration, as she pulls out her band
full of staccato notes, which she plays as legato.

Yet, the students I have started have progressed very well. It has taught
me a huge lesson about assuming the responsibility of another teachers
students. I am developing a document which will be given to all the
parents which goes over the qualities of a good Clarinetist. I tried to
take the slow, get used to the new teacher approach, I'm not sure that I
will use that approach any longer.

Jay Webler
Jay's Clarinet and Percussion

-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Smith [SMTP:pattiesmith@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] re: Tone - the quick way

<< File: ATT00000.txt; charset = Windows-1252 >> I find most keep up the
corrections I make, but that the beginners I have
started myself are more likely to do that than those students I have gotten
who have played a few years and learned a lot of bad playing habits
(usually
playing in band!) that have to be unlearned.

Patty Smith

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