Klarinet Archive - Posting 000527.txt from 2003/07

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Student rhythm problem
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:10:13 -0400

I've run into a problem with a student that I can't seem to fix.

One of the exercises he was working with had one section that was filled
with sequences of 8-16th notes followed by 6-8th note triplets. (or that
pattern reversed) He cannot get it. He comes out of the 16ths and then
loses the tempo in the triplets. In the reverse, if he comes out of the
triplets, the 16ths tempo is off. (This is with & w/o a metronome or me
banging on the stand or even tapping on his head with a pencil.) (He
doesn't have a problem with 16ths or triplets, alone. Only in this
combination of one following the other.)

For several weeks, we broke it down into two measure sections. Work 2
measures. Get it sort of in control. Move on to the next two measures.
Put the four together. Etc. He's the last lesson of that day, and I've
gone as much as 30 minutes over, just working on this. By next week, it's
completely gone. We've counted it out loud. Clapped it. I've even had him
take his warm-up scales and play the pattern on each note. This works fine.
Back to the exercise. It's gone.

It's not a question of practice time. He probably practices more than any
other student in the high school band. And he's had minimal problems with
everything else. (Except the usual dotted 8th, 16th, that everybody likes
to rush.)

I'm at wits end with this one -- and so is he. I finally had him put that
one aside and move on to another exercise, and said we'd come back to that
in six months, because he was getting very frustrated with it. For when we
go back to it, does anyone have any suggestions?

Jim Hobby

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