Klarinet Archive - Posting 000772.txt from 2002/11

From: "Dee D. Flint" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] teaching clarinet
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0500

Start from the beinning with how to assemble the horn. Go over embouchure
and breath support and how to hold the horn. Be very patient and willing to
repeat things as long as it takes. Start from the beginning on reading
music and playing simple notes. Do not rush the student. Make sure she
gets it. Find simple tunes so that she can play something that she
recognizes early in her learning. Check out a music store and have her buy
a beginner's lesson book and a very simple tune book.

Also be careful to let the student know they are making progress. Don't
tell them they are doing poorly. Find some one thing you can tell them that
is good.

Yes you will also learn a lot yourself by teaching.

Dee Flint

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subject: RE: [kl] teaching clarinet

> If only you knew these other girls. I believe that she wants to learn
> because she is the one who asked me for help. When I told the other girls
I
> thought they were going to burst into happy bunnies or something crazy
like
> that. By what they and she has told me, it isn't her fault. She says that
> they have confused her and they say that they don't want to teach her
> because they don't have time and they don't want to play more than they
have
> to.
> They don't even practice. haha.
>
> I think it would be good to teach someone. I think I would learn
something.
>
> -Rebecca
>
>
>
>
> >From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
> >Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> >To: klarinet@-----.org
> >Subject: RE: [kl] teaching clarinet
> >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:26:58 -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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