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Re: Playing clarinet

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2013-01-21 12:57

As a retirement project, repertoire should be your choice following your interests. But keep in mind that there are a lot more notes in Stardust than there are in Twinkle, Twinkle. There may be more than one step involved to get to Stardust. If a teacher seems to be treating you like a 9-year-old beginner (who is the real target of the Mary Had a Little Lamb-Lightly Row-Twinkle, Twinkle laden beginner books), the best solution is to communicate that diplomatically and at the same time pose your own questions about playing the instrument that address the problems you're discovering. If a teacher only shows you 5 notes at the first lesson, there's no reason why you can't go independently to a fingering chart and try to go farther. If you run into problems, you can then ask the teacher about their cause. My strongest advice to an older beginning student like you is that you are learning to play for your own purposes, and because you are self-motivated, you are absolutely free even with a teacher involved to move at whatever rate of speed is comfortable. You only need to communicate with a teacher and establish a collaborative adult-to-adult relationship. The teacher you need to avoid is the one who turns out to be authoritarian and tries to over-control your learning process. The teacher, as many of us now have said, is (or can be) an invaluable *resource* if you're working together.

Karl

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