Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2022-12-02 17:15
Hello there, coming back after a very long absence. Took up my clarinet just a few months ago, trying to learn again with my Baerman (2nd division) and it was so bizarre - I couldn't even make out the notes, fingering. So I put the clarinet aside. Just a few weeks ago I started once more, having found at my childhood home my old Rubank Elementary. I was very happy with it, finding it very approachable as a course (can we say there is a difference between a 'course' and a 'method'?); there I was pleased with myself, when then appears lesson 11 (at least in my edition - which just to show you how old it is costed $1.50 at the time) 'Upper Regsiter'. Don't get me wrong, I can play those notes, but pedagogically speaking, for young students starting out, this seems much too great a leap. The lesson before is very basic three-quarter time with the middle/lower register.
I wonder if this has been changed at all. For those of you who teach, what do you think? (I know the students have to learn the upper register at some point but I think it could be done better - they get something like 5/6 upper register notes in one lesson!)
Elizabeth
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