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Author: deejay
Date: 2001-04-12 02:24
What's the best beginner book? I need a beginner book, but what should I get or does it matter?
deejay
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-04-12 10:53
*IF* you have a qualified instructor who knows how to use it, I consider the Rubank Elementary Method to be the best beginner's book.
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Author: Mindy
Date: 2001-04-12 11:48
The Rubank Elementary Method book is great but if you were just just starting the clarinet I would use the Book 1 Standard Of Excellence by Bruce Pearson. This book is more of a "band" book but you can use it to get to know the notes and fingerings. (it is a red book). I really like the Rubank too. I hope this helps.
Mindy
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Author: Sara
Date: 2001-04-12 15:41
I started with just me and my teacher learning notes and emuchure and whole notes,, then I started on the Rubanks. I don't Rubank should be the very first thing that you see when you first start out, it might be confusing!
Sara
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Author: Ed
Date: 2001-04-12 18:18
The Rubank uses some good material, but needs to be supplemented. It is VERY dry. For beginners, I usually start with the Breeze Easy method. It has been around for years, is methodical and thorough. It may not have all of the bells and whistles that some of the new methods claim, but who cares. Beware of some of the band method books as they often start on bad notes or approach things poorly as they are trying to find some common ground to use for all of the instruments in the band.
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Author: Gretchen
Date: 2001-04-12 18:36
Deejay,
The most important thing, of course, is the private teacher. That said, I teach lessons and have had quite a bit of success taking my students through the Hendrickson Method, published by Belwin Mills. Other choices you may want to consider are Rubank, Klose, and Langenus.
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Author: lindsay
Date: 2001-04-12 20:36
I have used tried several tutor books with my students. 'Take up the clarinet' is excellent for the younger student. 'Abracadabra clarinet' is also very good. I used to use 'Tune a day' or 'Learn as you play' but they seem very dated now.
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Author: deejay
Date: 2001-04-12 22:09
ok.. Is this a the kind of book that your talking about, http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1423195113 ? There's one on ebay.
deejay
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-04-12 22:35
deejay wrote:
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> Is this a the kind of book that your talking about,
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1423195113 ? There's one on ebay.
Yes this is a Rubank Elementary Method Book. Of course a person would want to get one for clarinet rather than bassoon.
The Rubank is very good if you have a teacher that knows how to use it. However a lot of teachers don't. This book is really designed to take two years for an average student. Thus only 1/2 a lesson per week would be a typical assignment. If the teacher tries to go at a lesson per week, it gets too hard too fast. To keep a student from getting bored with the material, supplemental songs need to be assigned by the teacher as the Rubank is very low in song content. However any student that goes through the Rubank at 1/2 lesson per week and practices 30 minutes per day (or equivalent) is really a good player by the end of that two years.
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Author: jerry
Date: 2001-04-13 00:10
My teacher has me learning with the Rubank Elementary Method Book (for clarinet of course).
Me previous teacher had me using the Standard of Excellence, and prior to that, the teacher started me on the Modern Klose-Lazarus book.
Rubank Elementary Method is probably a good compromise, but awfully boring.
Klose-Lazaus I like best because it has a bit more ballance (for interest) than Rubank, but seems to be more complex and should definately be accomanied by a teacher (unless, maybe if a person already knows music very well).
Standard of Excellence or Essential Elements (which I like better because it has a CD) might work best for the for self-teaching. But I stick to what the teachers has placed before me.
Be glad when I learn to play Yankee Doodle ........ that he often refers to when explaining "counting"..........YANKee DOOdle WEnt to town a RIDing..........one, two, three, four........clap, clap, clap, clap.
Ain't this the most fun you ever had..................feels kinda silly. Step aside Rubank, look out Pete, here I come.
~ jerry
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2001-04-13 05:15
When I started clarinet at high school, I read Frederick Thurston's book(Oxford companion book) and later Keith Stein's 'The art of clarinet playing'. They were good to know each practice's purpose.
In the last part of Keith Stein's book, there is a list of clarinet exersise books or etudes. He describes like this. 'Excellent but develops too fast for very young'. 'Challenging and may be good for ambitious or talented.'
My elder brother started clarinet using Rudolf Jettel's books by my father's recommendation. My father, a professional bassonist, knew his colleague clarinetist used Jettel's, Result: it was too much for my brother - a beginner with mediocre talent and too much ambition.
Choice of education materials seems difficult since the teacher should identify pupil's talent and musical intelligence.
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Author: Al
Date: 2001-04-13 16:03
I haven't found it yet. Either they get into the clarion register prematurely,don't have enough 8th note material,introduce the dotted quarter followed by the 8th too early or advance too quickly.
Let's give the kids a chance! (I'm talking about 9 and 10-year-olds here.)
I could never understand what the rush is all about. Here we are, trying to establish a decent sound, good embouchure, a sense of stability of tempo,etc.(Without a steady tempo, there can be no sense of rhythm.)
We overwhelm them with the above mentioned stuff piling one upon the other without ever really establishing solidity of tempo,tone quality or even checking to see weather or not they have their top teeth on the mouthpiece.
I lend them my beginner's books and keep switching from one to the other according to the progress and ability of the student.
Some of them just fly. Great. On to the next problem.
Paul Van Bodegraven's Adventures in Clarinet Playing had the right idea but even Paul, I feel, introduced the dotted quarter and 8th a bit too soon.
Get a decent sound,embouchure and sense of tempo before rushing ahead in "the book".
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-04-13 22:16
Al wrote:
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> I haven't found it yet. Either they get into the clarion
> register prematurely,don't have enough 8th note
> material,introduce the dotted quarter followed by the 8th too
> early or advance too quickly.
> Let's give the kids a chance! (I'm talking about 9 and
> 10-year-olds here.)
To me this indicates more of a flaw in the teacher than in the method book. There's no rule that says that every lesson in the book should take the same amount of time as every other lesson. Depending on the material and the student, some lessons ought to be repeated for a 2 or 3 weeks while sometimes similar lesson material can be combined if the students show a good grasp of it.
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Author: Corey
Date: 2001-04-15 03:23
i started on Hal Leonard's essential elements it comes in book 1 and 2
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