Teaching woodwinds
By: H. Gene Griswold.
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780131577121
Subjects: Woodwind instruments -- Instruction and study; Woodwind instruments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Fundamentals. Daily care and assembly ; Body position ; Hand/finger positioning ; Embouchure ; Mouthpiece exercises ; Pop tests ; Touch-tone-teaching ; Breathing ; Articulation ; Intonation ; Vibrato; title: 2. Additional teaching guides and check lists; title: 3. Hands-on overview, part I. Introduction ; Basic scales ; Hand/finger positioning ; Octave/register mechanisms ; Primary break crossings ; Middle registers ; More on break crossings ; More octave/register mechanisms; title: 4. Hands-on overview, part II. Basic scale chromatic, low register ; Basic scale chromatic, middle register ; Clarinet throat tones ; Break crossings chromatic ; Key clusters ; Right pinky clusters, low registers ; Left pinky clusters, low registers ; Right pinky key clusters, middle registers ; Left pinky key clusters, middle registers ; Right forefinger clusters ; Left forefinger clusters ; Twig keys ; Role of the thumbs ; Bassoon thumb clusters; title: 5. High registers. Introducing high notes ; High registers and secondary break crossings ; Connecting the three registers; title: 6. Fingering review. Steps for learning fingerings ; Charts for basic fingerings ; Scale review : chromatic, major, and minor; title: 7. Technique/tunes : 25 class lessons. Developing teaching/performance techniques using tunes from band methods; title: 8. Teacher/student duets; title: 9. Alternate fingerings. When to teach : general categories ; Frequently used alternate fingerings ; Application of alternate fingerings ; Chromatic ; Arpeggios ; Trills ; General fingering rules; title: 10. Review questions ; Hands-on overviews ; Technique/tunes/scales ; Alternate fingerings ; Review questions ; Terminology ; Bibliography ; Books ; Web sources ; Woodwind anthology ; Instrumentalist magazine ; Blank fingering charts.