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Author: jlcraig
Date: 2014-05-13 21:19
Looking for suggestions on good books to use for a beginner/novice student. I am looking for something that will start to work on scales as well as short etudes or just have a variety of different exercises for a beginning student.
Thanks.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-05-13 21:45
Pick any beginning band method. They all have their quirks in terms of sequence, but they all cover the same things. Or pick any of the clarinet methods by players - Galper, Collis, Hite.
Is this for you a child?
Karl
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Author: jlcraig
Date: 2014-05-13 22:09
Thank you, I will look into some. No, I am a college student and am teaching beginner students.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-05-13 22:48
If, as is likely, they are part of their band programs at school, they may already have a book (a band method) that the school band teacher has picked. If that's the case, you might do more for the student if you monitor what the class in school is doing and, without necessarily going beyond it in terms of page or line numbers, supplementing it with related materials. All of the major school series have supplementary study materials coordinated to go along with the basic method book. The band director will never have time to get very involved in those.
Karl
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-05-13 22:55
A couple of general comments your post brings to mind:
It's often a fine line when teaching a truly beginning student who is getting school lessons but whose parents want to provide more through private instruction. If you teach ahead in the same book as the band director, you create a bored student in the band classes who may very well act out. If you only monitor and correct the same material, unless the student is really struggling with it (in which case you're doing remedial work for the band teacher), the student may get little out of it that the band teacher can't himself provide.
Eventually (in weeks), once you know the student's strengths and weaknesses, and the student has a basic reading and technical vocabulary, you can choose material that will go in different directions than the band classes and the capable student will progress faster because of the 1-on-1 relationship. But at the very beginning, when the student knows little and can't do much, the most elementary steps are pretty much the same, whether you teach them or the band teacher does, so choosing a different book *because it's different* can be counterproductive.
Support the band teacher until the student is ready (in terms of reading and technical ability) to take off. After that, offer whatever the student's own talent level and work ethic can handle.
Good luck!
Karl
Post Edited (2014-05-14 02:28)
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Author: clariniano
Date: 2014-05-22 20:16
Galper is my go-to book for MOST students, though occasionally for some students it moves too fast.
Please check out my website at: http://donmillsmusicstudio.weebly.com and my blog at: http://clariniano.wordpress.com
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