Klarinet Archive - Posting 000463.txt from 2004/09

From: "Rachel Deville" <contrabassclarinet@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bass Clarinet Sectionals
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:35:45 -0400

Mr. Krelove,
I will do more of a group lesson with these students for an hour a week and
then hopefully some of them will be doing private lessons with me as well.
We will work on the current band music, region band music, as well as
working with tone, embouchure and so on. I am not student teaching until
the spring. The band director has not given me any really strict guidelines
yet. She justs wants the students to work with someone that really knows
how to play the instrument and can teach them to do the same. THank you for
responding! Have a great day.

Rachel

>From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net> Reply-To:
>klarinet@-----.org> Subject: RE: [kl] Bass
>Clarinet Sectionals Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:39:55 -0400
>
>What exactly do you mean by "sectionals," Rachel? Are the players being
>pulled out to work with you during a band rehearsal? Are they actually
>studying with a teacher (probably the band director) at the school and
>coming to you for specialized extra help? Or are you their only source of
>instruction - more like a group lesson than a band "sectional?" Is this
>work part of your student-teaching experience?
>
>Since you are still in your college program and (I assume) not yet
>state-certified, I presume that there is a full-time instrumental teacher
>(probably the band director) involved. He/she ought really to be the one to
>ask your question - the teacher may prefer that you use the music they're
>playing in band as material while you work on the equipment/embouchure/tone
>production problems. If the teacher wants you to take over the students'
>instruction entirely (as would be the case in a student-teaching
>placement), he or the school district may already have made decisions about
>preferred text material (method book) and you may be expected to move these
>players through that material.
>
>A great deal of the answer to your question depends (or should) on the rest
>of the situation.
>
>Karl Krelove
>
>
> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rachel Deville
>[mailto:contrabassclarinet@-----.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004
>12:13 PM > To: klarinet@-----.org > Subject: [kl] Bass Clarinet
>Sectionals > > > Hello to all, > I am a senior music ed. major and this
>semester I have the > oppertunity to > run some Bass clarinet sectionals at
>a local junior high. I have > experience > with low woodwinds as I was a
>three year all-stater on the > Contra-alto and 4 > time Area qualifier on
>Bass. My question is how would you go > about teaching > these young ones.
> I mean one has never played clarinet and > started on Bass > and the
>other has played clarinet before. They both produce a > very weak and >
>airy sound. I realized they were playing on to hard of reeds as well as >
>chipped ones. I will be working with them for an hour each week. Any >
>suggestions on how you would work with them?( any particular books or >
>methods you use for teaching) Also, I was also kind of thrown on > bass
>when > I was started and so I never really learned a "correct" embouchure.
>Any > information you have would help me. Thanks! >
> Rachel > >
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