Klarinet Archive - Posting 000382.txt from 2003/11

From: Will Shattuck <wshattuck@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Flats, Sharps and ligatures!
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:44:56 -0500

This was great to hear. If I was still a music teacher I would do this
with my bands. I think I'm going to have to do this myself to get back
into the hang of playing/praticing.

Will

Anne Lenoir wrote:

> More about Flats, Sharps & Keys
>
> Recently I was trying to think of a way to get all of my younger
> students to memorize most of their scales, without reading them. Just to
> be able to play them without having to think about reading them.
<snip>
> So far, the results are that about 5
> ten-year-olds can play starting on the Circle on low G, moving on to C,
> F, Bb, Eb and Ab. This also gives me an opportunity to teach them how to
> practice working on fingering problems in diatonic scale playing on the
> clarinet, like going from Eb to F (you always have to pick up 3 fingers
> and put them back down).

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