arbans method

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:35 am

So, you want it in a different key? Transpose it yourself. That way you get transposition exercise and experience along with the playing.

TonyZ · Post by **TonyZ** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:42 am

iiipopes wrote:So, you want it in a different key? Transpose it yourself. That way you get transposition exercise and experience along with the playing.

Again, correct, for the advanced player. For the beginner, however, it doesn't wash. Arban's is a lifelong learning adventure. Transposing from day one is not practical.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:52 pm

TonyZ wrote:Again, correct, for the advanced player. For the beginner, however, it doesn't wash. Arban's is a lifelong learning adventure. Transposing from day one is not practical.

Maybe, maybe not. My wife teaches beginners on flute. She'll have the young 'uns come to a lesson with a song they know well and ask them to play it in several keys. (no written music is involved) It seems that transposing isn't terribly hard if taught early on.

My wife thinks that it also encourages one to think about the "shape" of a melody rather than how it's fingered on an instrument.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:17 pm

Scooby Tuba wrote:Yet another flute/tuba household!

Don't knock it! After years of waltzing to gigs with her flute, my wife has become tuba roadie extrordinairre (to my eternal gratitude!)

Tubaguy56 · Post by **Tubaguy56** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:52 am

G-A-S-P I am all over buying that, mine is ancient so I don't get the duets...