Di B
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Have recently started teaching a small group from scratch. This is the first time I have tried to do this and it is proving more difficult than I imagined!
There is a young girl (just under 7) on cornet. She can blow it, and now knows to use her tongue to produce the notes one after the other rather than a gap through but she still has one fundamental problem I don't know how to go about rectifying.
She can play bottom C and hold it, so I have tried her with a D.... this moves between D and bottom G and anywhere inbetween! (I think she may be good at lip trills in the future! :wink: )
I have tried her standing up and blowing forte as this way she is marginally better and that is the way I am going to carry on with unless someone has any better ideas???
I know a lot of it will be practice, and she does 10 minutes 3 times a week but I am wondering if this is a problem associated with younger beginners or if she is unique?
I haven't had this problem with an 8 year old and an adult who are the other beginners!
Any advice on this problem and any general snippets of advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers
There is a young girl (just under 7) on cornet. She can blow it, and now knows to use her tongue to produce the notes one after the other rather than a gap through but she still has one fundamental problem I don't know how to go about rectifying.
She can play bottom C and hold it, so I have tried her with a D.... this moves between D and bottom G and anywhere inbetween! (I think she may be good at lip trills in the future! :wink: )
I have tried her standing up and blowing forte as this way she is marginally better and that is the way I am going to carry on with unless someone has any better ideas???
I know a lot of it will be practice, and she does 10 minutes 3 times a week but I am wondering if this is a problem associated with younger beginners or if she is unique?
I haven't had this problem with an 8 year old and an adult who are the other beginners!
Any advice on this problem and any general snippets of advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers