Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2006/03

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Help with teaching
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:48:55 -0500

Has anyone any advice to offer me about teaching a child who cannot read
music in the sense that she cannot identify which space or line a
notehead is on? I think of this as being the musical version of
dyslexia (although I have no idea what's actually going on).

For example, she can count and she can touch the notehead accurately
with the point of a pencil, but if the notehead is on the 2nd line, she
cannot tell me "This note is on the 2nd line" or "this note is on the G
line".

She has an ear, albeit not perfect pitch, and she sings on pitch. Are
there any 'standard' methods for dealing with this sort of problem?

Thank you,
Bill

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