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Re: After Rubank Adv I

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-08-21 06:36

Use Baermann III or other scalebooks in tiny doses. Assign her a single line, practiced dead slow with a metronome at the beginning of each practice session and also during the first 5 minutes of each lesson with you. Then go to the Voxman duet books volume 1 for sight reading and volume 2 for music.

As you plays the duets, adjust like crazy to her rhythmic irregularities, so you always stay with her. Then take one from vol. 1 and give her the challenge of staying with you as you change speed.

Slow etudes such as Rose 32 #1 should be within her grasp. Be the conductor and have her follow you. Raise the stand and tilt it back so she can see both the music and you. Explain that she needs to learn to both at once and practice that with her. Then have her conduct you.

The easy duets in Lazarus part II use operatic melodies. Have her pretend to be a singer, first singing and then playing in the same style.

Show her some excitement, even in scales. Make music from them, starting with an 8th and then 16ths so the tonic comes on the beat. Do them up and down, pushing the musical phrase up and down.

Ask for different styles in a super-easy, familiar tune. That is, play Three Blind Mice in the standard, cute style. Then have her play looking up, right down and left (on the rest) for each note. Then have her get up and sit down on each note. (The goal is to end in peals of laughter.)

Then play it as a lullaby, soft and sweet. Then play it with a roar (A Trio of Sightless Rodents). Then in jazz style. Then in rap.

A big part of your job is to get her out of the rut of just playing notes. Make it a game.

Ken Shaw

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