On 3/19/2010 11:53 AM, Dick Martz wrote: > Does anyone here know how to teach desire to practice? >
Not me. But providing the student with enjoyable experiences can't hurt. Looking forward to playing duets generally excites a student, as has been noted. "Practice", to an extent suggests repetition and boredom. Giving the student fun stuff to drill on can help. I recommend stuff such as you will find here: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/OneillsHornpipes.html This is a downloadable collection only of hornpipies, i.e., scale and arpeggio exercises, not to mention fodder for transposition and certainly not to mention stuff to duet with a pianist or guitarist who knows chords, or a teacher who might be able to burp out a bass line, or even to play at parties where they let just anyone do their thing. Click on "sheet" after the name of any tune to have the notes appear on-screen; drag it to your desktop or other folder to make it yours, enlarge it, save it. Back up to the homepage: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/ where you will find an appeal for funding - after sponging for a year now, I just bought the CD to help the website stay in business - scroll down to those yellow boxes which you can click to find other collections of horn-playable music ("The 1850" contains Airs & Songs, Marches, Jigs, Reels, more...) You won't soon run out of new tunes to play. All of this stuff is real, not dumbed down or meant for pedagogy, and if worked into the lesson wisely, surely will inspire students to want to play and learn. Some of it can be played as written, others are better transposed down, preferably to C - that's a great key for students to know well. This is all toe-tapping, full-body happytime music; it stands a good chance of grabbing your students. Mozart, Haydn and most of the other great composers used the same notes, and sometimes even in the same order - learning this will transfer. If you can get your students to look forward to jig-time with you, you might be able to parlay that excitement into getting them to practice other more traditional exercises to your satisfaction so as to get this moment as their reward. David G _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
