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Is this an acceptable teaching method?

Author: Noverbuf
Date: 2008-12-17 11:13

Is this an acceptable teaching method?

I'm an adult clarinet student and have been learning to play for 2 months now.
It doesn't come easy to me and I struggle with fingering mostly. Breath support isn't a problem for me since I played alto sax for one year before taking up clarinet.

What troubles me is my teacher's method. He literally pushes me to play some pieces which are a mixture of the lower register, throat tones and second register.
I keep telling him that I don't have much of the physical ability as yet to play them correctly as I often miss B after playing A and overall I don't feel comfortable switching between registers and throwing in throat tones here and there.
As a result I practice couple of measures for half an hour, sometimes hitting most of the notes but often not.

I leave my lessons in frustration because I feel that I learn nothing but how not to be able to play my clarinet. On my own I can relatively fluently play in the low register and I can do the same in the second rerister when I switch there and get a feel of it. What I cannot do comfortably is switching back and forth and as I said mixing throat tones in between.

My teacher insists that I keep trying saying that if I miss the note 10 times I'll play it correctly on 11th time.

Is there anything wrong with this approach?

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