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For one semester/quarter courses in woodwind methods.
Teaching Woodwinds has draws on the authors thirty-five years of experience teaching woodwinds to students. Organized by specific teach topics from the fundamentals of hand and finger position to articulation and intonation.
Drawing on a classic set of 19th century teacher/student duets, the included twenty-five class lessons enable students to learn by doing and by listening as they play duets with the instructor.
H. Gene Griswold has taught woodwinds methods at Towson University for the past twenty five years.
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
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