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Method Books

Author: clarinettefaerie
Date: 2011-05-21 03:35

So, I'm beginning a clarinet studio. I'm receiving some younger students (soon-to-be-7th-graders).
My own clarinet teacher told me that making my own curriculum is the most effective means of teaching, but you can imagine... I'm a junior music ed student. I don't have tremendous amounts of time to make up a curriculum for each of my students, even through the summer. So, I'm looking at method books.
I myself used the Rubank methods for the first couple of years of lessons, but they never were very effective. So, I'm looking at some other method books.

Here's the list I've got so far-
Hovey's Practical Studies For Clarinet
Endresen's Supplementary Studies
Polatschek's 24 Studies for Beginners (possibly a few of the 12 Etudes also)

Would the Klose, (beginning) Baermann, or Lazarus Methods be effective? I haven't had time to really look through any of these, but would they work for beginning students? Are any of these (or others) on public domain so that I can choose some parts of each and kind of fit together to suit each student?

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