Teaching Woodwinds

Contents

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations Used in this Book
• Fingering Diagrams Used in this Book
• 1. FUNDAMENTALS
• Daily Care and Assembly
• Body Position
• Hand/Finger Position
• Embouchure
• Mouthpiece/Reed Pitches
• Pop Tests
• Touch-Tone-Teaching
• Breathing
• Articulation
• Intonation
• Vibrato
• 2. ADDITIONAL TEACHING GUIDES AND CHECKLISTS
• Student Selection
• Common Problems
• Selecting Instruments
• Single Reed Mouthpiece Selection
• Single Reed Selection
• Single Reed Adjustment
• Double Reed Selection and Adjustment
• Emergency Repairs
• Lower Single Reed Instruments
• Transposition Chart
• 3. HANDS-ON OVERVIEW: PART I
• Practice Tips
• Introduction
• Basic Scales
• Hand Positioning
• Octave/Register Mechanisms
• Primary Break Crossings
• Middle Registers
• More on Break Crossings
• More Octave/Register Mechanisms
• 4. HANDS-ON OVERVIEW: PART II
• Basic Scale: Chromatic-Low Registers
• Basic Scale: Chromatic-Middle Registers
• Clarinet Throat Tones: Training the Left Hand
• Break Crossings: Chromatic
• Right-Pinky Key Clusters-Low Registers
• Left-Pinky Key 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
• 5. HANDS-ON OVERVIEW: PART III
• Introducing High Registers
• Introducing Secondary Break Crossings
• Connecting the Three Registers
• 6. FINGERING REVIEW
• Seven Steps for Learning/Teaching Fingerings (See Chapters 3, 4, and 5)
• Fingering Charts for the Basic Fingerings
• Hands-on Review: Major, Minor, and Chromatic Scales
• Blank Fingering Charts
• 7. TECHNIQUE/TUNES:
• TWENTY-FIVE CLASS LESSONS
• 8. TEACHER / STUDENT DUETS
• 9. ALTERNATE FINGERINGS
• When to Teach
• General Categories of Alternate Fingerings
• Frequently Used Alternate Fingerings
• Application of Alternate Fingerings
• Chromatic
• Arpeggios
• Trills
• Woodwind Quintet
• 10. REVIEW QUESTIONS
• 11. TERMINOLOGY
• 12. BLANK FINGERING CHARTS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Books
• Web Source
• Woodwind Anthology
• The Instrumentalist
• INDEX