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Re: It's been 30 years...

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-04-30 20:48

It really depends on how much work you need to review basic music skills like keeping a basic pulse, articulation, note durations (rhythm), etc.. Most of the method books assume you're learning to perform music for the first time and move through these things fairly slowly while they introduce fingerings and techniques, which can spread your attention as a re-learner pretty widely over areas you might not need.

I have a student currently whose mom was my student when she was in high school 20 years ago. She (the mom) is now rebuilding with nothing much more than the music from a community band she recently joined and a lesson with me at the beginning of each run of rehearsals on a new program. She just sent me a very credible, if slightly under tempo (maybe not for her band), video of her practicing her part for Candide Overture, a part she couldn't have played a couple of months ago. Assuming you were reasonably secure on the clarinet 30 years ago, you shouldn't have much trouble working back into the mechanics of playing without a lot of formal structure.

Karl

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