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 Re: Timing
Author: lbarton 
Date:   2010-07-01 19:08

Teaching the "rhythmically challenged" can be very difficult and I understand because I share that problem . For years as a kid I never truly grasped exactly what happened between beats until a teacher made me write out the subdivisions : 1 ee and uh, two ee and uh , etc in 4/4 time if you have sixteenths. Simpler is just l and, two and, three and, four and if its only eigth notes Then it is often still too difficult to coordinate blowing , fingering, lips etc. Next step is to make the student sing the notes , or verbalize them in simple syllables lah-lah- lah etc if they are too shy to sing. Then they can concentrate on the rhythm and not worry about fingering, breath etc. If they can't say/sing it correctly they certainly can't coordinate everything to play it on the oboe.
Exercises all on the same note also simplify the process.
Playing it for the student rarely helps because they just copy by ear and do not understand or apply the rhythmic pattern in a new piece.
I also make them pencil in a vertical slash through each note for each beat-----this visually reinforces where they hear the metronome click . In dotted quarters they can visually see the vertical "fencepost" where the metronome clicks while they are holding the dotted note more than a single beat. L Barton
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