Klarinet Archive - Posting 000131.txt from 2006/03

From: "Bob & Miriam Thayer" <rmthayer@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Help with teaching
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:46:50 -0500

Try putting blue on the g line and have her say the music alphabet up and
down----abcdefg gfedcba. Also use large staffs and/or decorate notes with
different smiley faces always remaining the same--using half and whole
notes.

Hope this might help.

Miriam
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From: "Ormondtoby Montoya" <o4rmondtoby@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:47 PM
Subject: [kl] Help with teaching

> 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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