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Why Woodwind & Brasswind ? |
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Music Pathways offers a highly intelligent, thorough, and well-coordinated approach to beginning keyboard study. While experiencing a wide range of keyboard sounds, students develop reading skills, rhythmic response, and keyboard technique, insuring a smooth and easy progression to more difficult levels and laying the groundwork for practical musicianship. Much emphasis is placed on secure reading. Students apply a knowledge of intervals to reading based on landmark notes, and in a short time they establish a very wide reading range. |
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The child-oriented tunes are predominantly originals by the late, great Lynn Freeman Olson. Level A starts the beginning piano student by playing clusters of five white keys, to gain an orientation to the keyboard and to start to develop a natural hand position and technique. Next, students play simple tunes with simple rhythms in open fifths in both hands. Students are introduced to skips and steps on the keyboard and on the staff. It is not until this point that the musical alphabet and white key letter names are presented in Chapter 5. Next, students begin reading from two and three-line staves and shortly thereafter play from the five line staff. Keyboard charts are provided to show the appropriate hand position until Chapter 6 when clefs and the grand staff are introduced. By the last chapter, Chapter 14, students have been exposed to playing over a wide range of the staff and keyboard with an intervallic approach and no fixed hand positions.
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1 found helpful, 0 found unhelpful.
A patterned approach to reading entire keyboard, excellent technique
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by Mary Pollard
1/3/2008 4:12:26 AM
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Musical Experience:
Piano Instructor for 30 years
Style of music:
Piano
Hometown
Spokane Valley, WA
This is the best teaching course to easily read entire keyboard. It is an intervallic approach that begins with good hand shape, recognition of steps and skips and proceeds to teach all 5 C's on the staff. The course through four books easily familiarizes student’s works with all twelve major keys in the first two books and children easily read double clefs and can transpose easily to the keys they learn. They continually review and so these skills are not lost. Students are not afraid of playing sharps and flats and moving all over the keyboard is not a frightening experience. A whole keyboard approach is utilized from the beginning. I've utilized FJH Music Adventures simultaneously while I'm teaching this course because it adds fun and practice. They work very well together. I highly recommend this series. Students advance into more interesting music quickly and are more motivated since they are enjoying playing music they want to play much sooner.
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14 found helpful, 8 found unhelpful.
I have used many methods; this is the most comprehensive and student-appreciated.
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by Jim Hepler
10/25/2005 7:53:08 PM
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Musical Experience:
Piano Teacher - 35 years; Full-time church musician/organist
Style of music:
Piano, Organ, Choral, Handbell
Hometown
Bennettsville, South Carolina
Music Pathways develops an excellent comprehensive approach to musicianship. Students become familiar with intervallic approach to reading, as well as by note.
They are comfortable on all areas of the keyboard from earliest levels, and quickly learn to play in the 12 major keys. They learn skills such as transposition and composition in the four early levels (A, B, C and D).
The only drawback is lack of corresponding books, although some are available (including sheet music).
I have taught from many of the major methods, and keep returning to Music Pathways. I enthusiastically and heartily recommend this method to teachers.
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11 found helpful, 8 found unhelpful.
I have used many methods; this is the most comprehensive and student-appreciated.
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by Jim Hepler
10/25/2005 7:53:08 PM
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Musical Experience:
Piano Teacher - 35 years; Full-time church musician/organist
Style of music:
Piano, Organ, Choral, Handbell
Hometown
Bennettsville, South Carolina
Music Pathways develops an excellent comprehensive approach to musicianship. Students become familiar with intervallic approach to reading, as well as by note.
They are comfortable on all areas of the keyboard from earliest levels, and quickly learn to play in the 12 major keys. They learn skills such as transposition and composition in the four early levels (A, B, C and D).
The only drawback is lack of corresponding books, although some are available (including sheet music).
I have taught from many of the major methods, and keep returning to Music Pathways. I enthusiastically and heartily recommend this method to teachers.
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