Have you never heard about the benefit of "training with handicap" ????? That´s it. If you make all that easy from the beginning (going up to Mt.Everest summit carried on porters back), greater tasks without an easing tool, apparatus, horn or whatever will become a nightmare - & thus abandoned.
============================================================ ============================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: Re: [Hornlist] start off on an F horn? In a message dated 3/2/06 9:33:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Starting on an F single horn is important not only to keep matters > simple for the beginning player, > Simple compare to what. I just don't buy the mystique that a double horn is harder to understand than a single. Sorry the fingerings at this age are the fingerings they put down what you tell them. > but also so the student will form the correct concept of how the horn > is supposed to sound, > Again, that should come from the teacher no kid picks up the horn sounds great the sound concept is what your teacher plays for you. > > > how it is supposed to respond > up & down the scale, > Okay so it responds differently when we switch them to a double? > the basics of how it works, > All brass instruments work the same you buzz the note and you get a sound the higher the buzz the higher the note. > The fundamental > orientation & response of the horn's characteristic range & voice, etc. > Well, tough for little guys to get the range happening maybe the voice but I think that comes from what they hear others do not what they produce. > > After an appropriate degree of progress, the horn student will be > ready to "graduate" from a single horn in F to a double horn in F & B-flat. > Where they should have started to begin with. The bottom line is kids stick with activities they are successful with ... they will be more successful starting on the double ... The above is snarky so I sent it off list. Sorry for the attitude but I just don't buy the single horn analogs. Debbie > > _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
