Klarinet Archive - Posting 000615.txt from 2000/05

From: klarANNette h satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mixed meters
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:27:38 -0400

On Tue, 2 May 2000 23:51:08 EDT GrabnerWG@-----.com writes:
snip

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

One of the advantages of maturity is that i can quickly percieve and
respond to the competent to amazingly good. (I rarely am wrong about
good ones, but occasionally find a few people that i may under-rate, tho
very rarely wrong about the low end of the scale.)

I don't find 'frighteningly' good because i have life-long experience
from making obvious mistakes but often getting the subtleties. So it has
generally been that only the damn competent or frighteningly good gave me
help and encouragement.

>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
or a
>sixteenth note steady in my head, I can read anything.

I enjoyed mixed meters and was a, uh, slob in regular meters. Then one
fine day the "aha" hit--I could keep the 8ths or 16ths awareness in
regular meters AND be on time their also.

annhall
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Ann Satterfield
clarinetist and teacher
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