Klarinet Archive - Posting 000744.txt from 2002/11

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] teaching clarinet
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:59:32 -0500

The more important question is, does she want to learn? If she does, lots of
people on the list will offer ideas.

Is this a school band and is it treated as a class (complete with a grade)?

If she really never intended to play an instrument and doesn't want to put
in the effort now (the other three girls may just have given up), then it
should become the band director's problem, at least to the extent of getting
her to decide the effort will be worthwhile or else finding a way out of the
group for her. Teaching someone who doesn't want to learn to begin with is
an exercise in frustration.

Is she a personal friend of yours - do you have a personal interest in her
success, or is this simply a project you've taken on for the good of the
band?

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca Brennan [mailto:rjbrennan1221@-----.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 1:17 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] teaching clarinet
>
>
> Hi all...
>
> We have a girl who joined the band last year to march with the guard. Now
> that it is concert season she has nothing to do except sit and pretend to
> play clarinet. The drum major was put in charge of teaching her nearly 6
> months ago and they have passed her back and fourth between her and two
> other girls. After all that time of tossing her back and fourth and
> confusing her, she has been passed to me and I plan to actually teach her.
>
> I don;t know where to start!
>
> -Rebecca
>
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