The first transportation I learned was Eb because back in those dark ages much band music was for Eb horn. I had played the horn less than 6 weeks when I was first required to learn to transpose. Normally now I teach C transposition first because so many kids have keyboards and/or pianos and want to check out pitches for correctness. If you don't say it is hard or really easy but necessary, most kids will embrace learning to transpose with enthusiasm. Walt and I are of the same ancient generation and share most of the same ideas about what to teach and how to get it done. Since we teach private lessons, we approach the topic of transposition according to the needs abd abilities of each student. I believe in the old saying: "Necessity is the mother of invention and learning." Ellen Manthe
> NO!!!! > > > Writing out the part defeats the purpose of what I was attempting to teach > to you and to your son. Please don't do that, give him the challenge of > learning how to work out a transposition! Try just a little bit at a time. > > To answer your inquiry about Eb, that is a good transposition to start with > because he very well could see some in his band class with some older > marches.I suggested #25, it's fairly easy and is not extreme in range, as I > don't think the Pottag book has another one that is fairly easy in Eb. I > know of one other one in Eb, but I am not a real fan of that particular duet. > > If he is aware of how to transpose now, it won't be such a shock to him > later when he sees it later on in Kopprasch or some other good method. > > Let me relate a story about one of my kids last year. His Middle school > band director and I were colleagues in a Brass Quintet, and she had him > start studying with me from practically day one...At the close of the > school year, she gave him a mallet percussion part in C for Old MacDonald > and told him to have me show him how to transpose it at his lesson. In the > meantime she called and gave me a heads up. When lesson time arrived, he > was excited about the part, as she had prepared him with the knowledge that > horn players had to able to transpose. He ate it up and really got into it. > It took only a few minutes to teach him the concept and he really reacted > well to the challenge. It's all in how you approach the idea of introducing > transposing to him. The earlier, the better in my opinion...Any thoughts by > anyone else who teaches lessons out there? > > Walt Lewis > _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
