Klarinet Archive - Posting 001130.txt from 2004/07

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] re: Essential Elements
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:43:51 -0400

I would never consider using only 1 band method to teach anyone.
That's why I mentioned the Galper method as the EE supplements it.
I like the Sueta Series too, but since Smartmusic supports EE, I use
it.
And the ones playing it develop quite rapidly. If a student is LD than
it's a different method, speed, etc anyway and highly individualized.

David B.

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"Thomas" <thomas@-----.com>
Subject: Essential Elements
Message-ID: <005a01c476e8$0cacadb0$01fea8c0@lynns5100>

Sorry, gang, but I hate this series.

They used EE for a while in our district and it was awful, the kids
made
absolutely no progress in a year. Two books of EE is the technical
equivalent of Book 1 Breeze Easy plus the first three pages of 16ths
in BEz
2 - check it for yourselves. The district went back to Breeze Easy.
Much
more substantial - even tho it's old, it still teaches things in a
good
progression. We as teachers can make certain aspects of playing
easier for
the kids - I don't totally like what BEz does with B and the "Break"
(there
is no such thing) but that's only because they work on it too soon.
People
shouldn't try to fix what isn't broken.

Anyway, back to EE - if you look at the layout of the book, it is very
busy.
I think the kids need to multi task just to be able to read the thing.
I
have had some kids with LDs who can NOT follow it, and I switched them
off.
It pissed one school teacher off until they figured out why I did it.
When
the kids started to be able to read, the teacher switched them all
back.

EE makes no sense in the order of how it teaches what it teaches, does
not
give enough practice or sensible practice to each new "element" and
hops all
over. It spends too much time on things that don't need it, and not
enough
on what does. I wonder if serious musicians were ever consulted when
developing each book? Probably not.
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