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Post by princessmoose on Nov 17, 2006 19:40:54 GMT
What do you do in them?
Had a new sax pupil start today...my ears hurt..ooouch!!
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Post by Dulciana on Nov 17, 2006 21:34:17 GMT
Can't speak for the sax, but my primary aim in a very first piano lesson is to make them want to come back! How to do this varies depending on their natural abilty, but I always think it's important that they go home able to play something - or almost - like Old Macdonald. If they can't do this, then I know there's trouble ahead...
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Post by kflute on Nov 22, 2006 23:01:33 GMT
Obviously it's not as easy to do something by ear like that on a wind instrument, because they have to learn to blow the damned thing first!!!
I like to get their embouchure set up correctly.................or as much as you can in their first lesson!! If it's a flute, we just do headjoint work for the first week, but they can mess around with rhythms and sticking their finger in and out and stuff. I have some headjoint duets too!!!
With sax and clarinet, I put it all together and set up their embouchure and attemp to get the first three notes out of it, as then they can play hot cross buns which is always a favourite!!!
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Post by princessmoose on Nov 23, 2006 20:06:50 GMT
Yeh I did hot cross buns with her!
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Post by YetAnotherKlavierist on Nov 23, 2006 20:39:11 GMT
Another pupil? Excellent .
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Post by princessmoose on Nov 23, 2006 20:48:53 GMT
Yep . She seems quite bright so I will see what she is like tomorrow in her lesson. I might put her inbetween two other pupils who are reasonable, so I don't get a parade of people hurting my ears .
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Post by Dulciana on Nov 24, 2006 20:53:36 GMT
I like to do that too. Not that a beginner hurts the ears so much on the piano, but I like to mix up the grades rather than have a few in a row at the same level. It keeps me on my toes more, and I'm less likely to compare them directly with each other - I never would openly, of course, but it's hard not to feel discouraged when a struggling Grade 2 follows a Grade 2 flyer! It's good for beginners to overlap slightly with more advanced pupils too, I think, to get an idea of what can be achieved in a certain time-scale.
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Post by princessmoose on Nov 24, 2006 20:57:24 GMT
Had another one start today, a recorder player... well her hands were the wrong way around, she can't read music...it was quite a challenge.
Sax girl was ok today, going to give her a sax in a few weeks to take home so progress should be made when she can play more than 20mins a week.
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Post by kflute on Nov 25, 2006 13:26:01 GMT
why do you have to wait to give her a sax?
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Post by princessmoose on Nov 25, 2006 19:38:55 GMT
Because we don't have one for her at the moment and I need to make sure she understands how to put it together and explain about cleaning, and the reed etc. I've done it already, but it needs reinforcing before I can trust anyone with an instrument.
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