minstrel: Flute music help please

[david ball]

Yes, we need to meet at an event sometime when we both have time to chat and 
play a bit (or you can play and I can sit in awe muttering to myself "I'm 
not worthy").
    The ladder analogy would make sense, except that not all the rungs are 
evenly spaced are they? If every note was just another hole in the flute, or 
if all the keys on a piano were white, I don't think I'd be having such a 
mental block about all this.
    I do have several beginner recorder books. And yes, it sure looks like 
it is in code to me *grin*. I have done a good deal of teaching on a number 
of subjects in my life. And the two things I have found out is most subjects 
are not nearly as difficult as they are generally presented to be, and in 
almost every case, if you can figure it out, there is one way that will make 
it easy for a particular student to grasp, and many ways that will just get 
that deer in the headlights look.. you know, like the one you see from me 
about now.

David Falcone


>From: L Joseph <wodeford at yahoo.com>
>To: minstrel at pbm.com
>Subject: Re: minstrel: Flute music help please
>Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:46:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- david ball <dkball at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > The whole idea that I can have two flutes (in
> > different keys) that I can use the same
> > fingering on to play the same song, but be playing
> > sharps and flats on one, and regular notes on the
> > other bounces off my brain like a .22 fired at an
> > M1 tank.
>
>David, we've GOT to stop meeting like this.
>
>Instead of thinking about the sharps and flats, think
>about dancing on a ladder laid on the ground. Your
>steps can repeat the same pattern (tune) whether you
>begin at the bottom rung or three rungs up or eight
>rungs up from there - the intervals or scales of each
>key is simply starting on a different rung of the
>ladder. Does this make any sense in visualizing how a
>musical staff works?
>
> > I'd just bag it all and keep playing by ear, but
> > it would be nice to be able to pick up a sheet of
> > music and be able to play the song.
>It's an extremely useful skill if you think you want
>to get into playing with other people.
>
>Since you already know your way around a recorder by
>ear, why not go pick up a beginner recorder method
>book. "The Recorder Guide" by Johanna Kulbach and
>Arthur Nitka is designed for learning both soprano (C)
>and alto (F) recorder and has what you need to teach
>yourself to read music in treble clef.
>
>Musical notation is simply a code for indicating pitch
>and duration of sounds relative to one another.  Note
>shape indicates duration (rest symbols indicate
>duration of silences) and the position of the note on
>the staff indicates pitch. It takes practice to be
>able to translate the dots on the page in your head,
>but it's a skill worth learning.
>
>Tuppenceworth,
>Jehanne de Wodeford, West
>
>
>=====
>"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production 
>deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --Frank Zappa
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