Klarinet Archive - Posting 000167.txt from 2000/05

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Mixed meters
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:26:36 -0400

In a message dated 5/2/00 9:30:44 PM Central Daylight Time, klarann@-----.com
writes:

<< Like last week, helping a student prepare for a rhythm reading/counting
test i found that she is very fluent when thinking beat by beat, but
she gets very confused when trying to count by meters.
>>

Some of my musical education was good, some was mediocre to bad, some was
frighteningly good, and some of it was damn competent.

I had a teacher, Mr. Richard Webster, Eastman graduate, student of Stanley
Hasty, who is just now retiring from teaching clarinet at the University of
Toledo.

One of the things this fine gentleman taught me was how to count.

Mixed meters hold no fear for me........as long as I can keep an eighth of a
sixteenth note steady in my head, I can read anything.

Dick Webster..........Thanks for all the help........

Anybody else out there ever run across this fine man??

Walter Grabner

http://www.clarinetxpress.com
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Bb/A, Eb, Bass
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