Klarinet Archive - Posting 000712.txt from 2001/01

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: playing along with students (was: mouthpieces)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:30:30 -0500

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:16:54 -0700, rbushidioglot@-----.com said:

> I must agree with Sir Edwin in large part.

[snip]

> When to play and not to play with a student is walking a thin line.
> The teacher who says or demonstrates to the student, "It goes like
> this....da dump de dump de dump," is taking the worst possible
> shortcut, the most expedient way and is doing a great disservice to
> the student. They can get that crap in school with their band
> director.

Right.

I notice that most of this discussion has assumed that what the teacher
plays to his/her student is necessarily his/her own version of how the
music goes.

Not so.

Tony
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