Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2006/03

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Help with teaching
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:30:38 -0500

In a message dated 3/8/2006 1:21:21 AM Central Standard Time,
o4rmondtoby@-----.net writes:
Do I understand you correctly that you play something while your student
listens, and then you ask the student to 'find' the notes on their
instrument as they try to play it back to you?>>

Yes, I do that all the time. Often it is scale exercises and tonguing
drills. I think it is good to make them develop their ear as well as their eye.

<<Or do you mean only that you ask your students to learn the music at
home by whatever manner they prefer and then to play it for you during
the lesson without the printed music in front of them?>>

I never said that. Not even close.

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetXpress.com
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