On 4/13/2014 6:07 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Wow, Darcy. > > Your experience is utterly different than mine. My experience is that > bassoonists, cellists, even bassists, and *especially* trombonists of all > ages read tenor clef with complete facility and without the first hint of > complaint. Trombonists also read alto clef. Could this be the difference > between jazz band and orchestral worlds, I wonder. > > [snip]
Actually I think the difference may well be in the training that those younger musicians get, rather than the genre they focus on. For many young students, learning to read different clefs is something they can and do master when they are required to do so, but until they are confronted with music from their school bands/orchestras or outside youth orchestra which requires the different clefs, they stay in their comfort zone of the bass clef. It's like transposition skills for trumpets, clarinets, saxophones -- when forced, people will learn how to do it, but until they are forced to, either by private lessons or important situations, many people make it well into adulthood with never having learned how to do it. And then they complain like someone is forcing them to go to the doctor to get an injection, whereas if they simply stopped complaining and put that effort into spending a few minutes each day learning that skill, either transposition or clef-reading, they'd have it mastered quickly and easily. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
