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RE: the best beginner book..

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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