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Author: Victoria
Date: 2008-10-13 10:50
Does anyone know if these books are still in production/still sold?
I used them around 12 years ago as a beginner, but now they seem hard to come by (or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places).
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2008-10-13 13:01
Tune A Day is not a great book. I would suggest Clarinet Basics by Paul Harris as a way to get started again. It's aimed at children really but I find that my students progress quite quickly through it as it really explains a lot in not to complicated ways.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Ed
Date: 2008-10-13 13:48
I have nor used these books with students for some time. I enjoyed them and found them very useful. I have not confirmed this, but recently I was told that these books were being discontinued.
One beginner method that has always worked well for me is the Breeze Easy Method.
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Author: weberfan
Date: 2008-10-13 14:03
You'd have to check with the Boston Music Company. A quick skim of the Internet turns up the C. Paul Herfurth books both here and in Britain, although they are hard to find in stores.
My teacher used Books I and II to get me jump started more than a year ago, when I returned to playing after decades away. I had my old Rubank book, but he said he preferred these, which turned out to be a great way to ease back into things..and quickly.
I bought Book I at a Sam Ash store but couldn't easily find Book II, which I finally got from Amazon.com. Each was $5.95.
This is not a recommendation. They worked for me. I had been expecting an immediate course of Rubank and Klose. (And Klose did, finally, join the fray.)
The veteran teachers on this board will no doubt have far richer insight.
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Author: Victoria
Date: 2008-10-13 14:36
Cheers all. I'll scan the net for some, unless I find something better, I quite like A Tune A Day though
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Author: awm34
Date: 2008-10-13 15:51
I have a copy of Book One that's in very good condition. A former teacher probably gave it to me about six years ago, but memory fails. It has a $3.95 price sticker on the back cover.
I'd be glad send it off to a good home at my expense.
Alan Messer
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2008-10-13 15:52
I don't know if it is still in print, but I was taught with Basil Tchaikov (spelling?) - Play the Clarinet. It is suitable for both adult and child beginners.
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Author: Chris J
Date: 2008-10-13 17:32
Hi Victoria
If you are keen to chase down a "Tune a Day" you could try searching on Amazon.co.uk or within Ebay.
Chris
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Author: claribex
Date: 2008-10-13 20:08
I would also recommend Clarinet Basics by Paul Harris. It has a modern and attractive layout and useful 'fact files' and quizzes to consolidate new info. Kids seem to love the cute (and amusing) pictures. It seems to work well with lots of different types of students- there's plenty of material for slow learners plus it's easy to for quick learners/ older students to navigate through at a quicker rate.
A Tune A Day has been renamed A New Tune A Day and has undergone a major facelift. In fact seems nothing like the original. I haven't used the clarinet version to teach from but have used the flute one and found it a bit dull and didn't like the tunes much!
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Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2008-10-13 22:14
I'm not sure I'd use the old Tune a Day, but I would like to see the new version. I'd like to point out that there is a companion book to the new version called "A New Tune a Day Performance Pieces." One of my students bought it on her own, and I've had her use it for lessons as a supplemental book. The book has some nice selections, and I think it is a good companion book for books like the Rubank Method.
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2008-10-14 01:19
As a band director for 19 years (retired), I have used many method books. A Tune A Day!!!!! Wow- haven't even thought of that, nor heard of it since I started with it myself in 3rd grade in 1963.
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Author: Victoria
Date: 2008-10-14 07:55
"I have a copy of Book One that's in very good condition. A former teacher probably gave it to me about six years ago, but memory fails. It has a $3.95 price sticker on the back cover.
I'd be glad send it off to a good home at my expense.
Alan Messer"
Thanks very much for the offer! But it would probably cost more than the book is worth to send it over here.
I'm sure I'll find some online. Was just wondering since I haven't seen them in shops for some time...
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Author: Victoria
Date: 2008-10-14 08:16
Well, Amazon has none in stock, I don't trust eBay (and I don't have access at work), but musicroom.com has books 1 and 2.
I imagine there are better books around these days, but I might get those two anyway, just to keep.
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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2008-10-14 14:57
Like a lot of people, I was started on this tutor in the mid 70's and, as I recall, there was not that much in it about actual clarinet technique (e.g embouchure, hand position and movement etc), quite a lot of music theory, which I suppose I needed at the time, and a lot of well-known tunes. The trouble with using too many well-known tunes in a beginners' tutor is that the pupils with a moderately good ear and memory will play from a combination of memory and ear and not by learning to read the music, especially rhythm, which of course meant that a certain amount of the theory content was wasted and vital skills such as sight-reading were not developed. Coupled with the lack of information on technique, this made this book a pretty poor start in my opinion. I know that as a beginner it is nice occasionally to be able to say "Listen, Mum, I can play Greensleeves!" or whatever it might be but to a responsible teacher cannot neglect the development of reading skills.
In such teaching as I have done, I like the "Learn as you Play" series by Peter Wastall. It has some fun tunes (including a few well-known ones) and a reasonable amount of technique and also an accompaniment book sold separately so it may not be necessary for every pupil to invest in it. Ruth Bonetti has also done a couple of books which I think are fun for youngsters with pictures and real instruction on technical points and ideas for pieces to listen to which is something else which I think a lot of young players benefit from - how can they play Bach, Mozart etc if they have never heard anything by them?
Happy tooting!
Vanessa.
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Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-10-14 15:18
Nessiel - I agree that the Wastall book is useful. But its advice on clarinet technique needs to be treated with extreme caution. On page 31, it tells us that a crescendo will make the note go sharp, so we must decrease the pressure from the lower lip; conversely, a diminuendo will make it go flat, so we must increase the pressure from the lower lip.
Er, no.
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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2008-10-14 16:30
Norbert - I would certainly agree that this is not accurate advice. Ultimately, there is no such thing as a perfect tutor any more than there is a perfect reed! Also, I'm sure we all agree that a good teacher does not slavishly churn every pupil through exactly the same programme of books and pieces etc and even at quite an early stage, it is necessary to supplement published material with exercises in manuscript - even get the pupil to make up his or her own.
Vanessa.
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Author: Copland
Date: 2008-10-19 12:21
Yeah, I thought that this was the one at Barnes and Noble, but I wasn't sure. While I was there yesterday, I looked and they do indeed have "A New Tune a Day" on their shelves.
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