Reading Steenstrup, *Teaching Brass*
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 11:15 pm
In some context or other at ITEC, someone (Jerry Young? Floyd Cooley? Roger Bobo?) tossed out that it wouldn't make sense to give students Kristian Steenstrup's Teaching Brass to read. Being perverse, the only thing that would do for me was to order it immediately and have a look. (It's here: http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Brass-Kr ... 8798839330.)
Having read it, I get that it wouldn't make sense to hand it to a high school student or perhaps even an undergraduate in order to help them figure out breathing and acoustics. But I am finding it enormously helpful.
The whole "song and wind" thing has up until now seemed like a kind of plausible sounding magic. Steenstrup's explanations of how that approach works — what performers and students can actually do and not do along that line while playing — have already helped me improve as a player.
So now I'm wondering who else has been through this little volume and what you learned from it. How has it held up?
Having read it, I get that it wouldn't make sense to hand it to a high school student or perhaps even an undergraduate in order to help them figure out breathing and acoustics. But I am finding it enormously helpful.
The whole "song and wind" thing has up until now seemed like a kind of plausible sounding magic. Steenstrup's explanations of how that approach works — what performers and students can actually do and not do along that line while playing — have already helped me improve as a player.
So now I'm wondering who else has been through this little volume and what you learned from it. How has it held up?