[TPIN] Adult student methods

[James Klages]

My sequence normally goes -
1. Breeze Easy Methods 1 + 2 (by John Kinyon)
(these are good in that each lesson is one page long. Has a warm up, a song
of some sort and a duet. Quick students can go through it several lessons at
a time and feel that they are brilliant. It presents rhythms, scales and
articulations in a systematic way. In addition I give each student the first
2o or so pages from my Routine and techniques which can be found at:
http://abel.hive.no/trumpet/exercise/Routines_and_Techniques.html

a high percentage of students play every major scale at the first lesson -
90%! They go through them every week from the beginning.  Many of them laugh
at those in their school bands who speak of difficult scales and keys.

to

2. Walter Beeler Method vol 2

at this time I also give students weekly solos to play also and  have them
play duets from the Voxman Rubank duet collection vol 1 to help with sight
reading.

3. to Arban

4. and Clark books 2 + 3

Jim Klages


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Scott Ruhe <scruhe at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm sure this topic has been discussed ad nauseum - I've just never seen
> it, or don't remember seeing it.  I tried searching the archives, but I must
> be doing something wrong, because I had to go month by month, starting back
> in the early nineties, and after nodding off somewhere around 1997, I
> figured it would be a better use of my time to simply ask.  So, for the
> teachers on the list:
>
> What method books are you guys using for beginning adult students who
> already play another instrument?
> How about for beginning adults who've never read music before?
>
> In fact ... just as a sanity check:
>
> What methods are you using with kids and/or adults between their very
> first-time-ever lesson through starting to work in Arban's?
> What (if anything) do you use to supplement during that time, at various
> levels?  What do you use to supplement Arban's?
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
> -Scott
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-- 
Dr. James L. Klages
Professor of Trumpet
School of Music
University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, OK 73034