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RE: How to associate notes and fingers?

Author: Merry
Date: 1999-06-30 02:24

I don't like seeing the letters of the notes written under the music. When a student is first learning they don't usually learn more then one or two notes per week so it really isn't too much for them to learn. I help teach brass for our local brass band by giving group lessons to beginners (as well as teaching clarinet and flute privately). It has long been the standard to write the fingering under the notes to help start the kids, probably because it is easier when you 5-10 kids to teach and an hour to do it. I really don't think it helps the kids in the long term but I am finding it hard to change the feeling of the other instructor. I have kids that have been learning for over a year and they still don't know what notes they are playing they just put the right fingers down which doesn't always mean the right note will come out if you are playing a brass instrument. I am trying to wean then off the dependency but it is hard. IMHO I don't think they should have been written on the music in the first place. Short cuts make long delays.

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