Klarinet Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2002/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: tunes
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:18:45 -0400

At 07:53 AM 10/1/2002 -0400, Kent Krive wrote:
>I thought perhaps you were going to opine that the use of "tunes," i.e.,
>melodies already known to beginners, hampers the development of note-reading
>skills. I would agree with such a contention, given that the students do not
>need to be thoroughly assiduous about their note-reading in order to play
>what they already know (although this would promote playing by ear...
>certainly a worthy objective).
>
>Perhaps the most bothersome of situations to me, as a teacher, involved the
>simplification of well-known melodies in beginning band books, "setting up,"
>as it were, note-reading errors, as tunes were played as originally learned
>rather than the way they were notated in the book.

Ah, but that is the trick! You catch the ones who are playing by ear with
those subtle changes.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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