"David Raleigh Arnold" <darnold4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.04.15.03.11.06@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Is every theory book you've ever seen for pianists, or for musicians
> in general?
Some are.
The answer is that the writers of theory books expect
> all musicians to be pianists.
That's not true at all. They expect people to understand how to read music
from a grand staff, and in other clefs, and usually how to work with
transposing instruments. It so happens that Piano is an ideal instrument
for
realizing things like four part harmony because it's hard to play four
notes
at a time on Saxophone! However, playing piano is not a pre-requisite,
only
a nice skill to have.
How can I accommodate both without
> "jumping back and forth"? I can't in the first 4 chapters, where
> the entire purpose is to get the student to fill some blank pages
> with readable notation.
Don't address to guitarists or pianists. Simply address it in "music"
terms - here's the Treble Clef, and here are the notes on the Treble clef.
If you then want to add the types of instruments that commonly read treble
clef, and then times when treble clef might be transposed (like for
Guitar,
or Tenor Voice), etc. then add that on as an aside.
>
> As you can see, the new version is even more of a workbook than
> the old. One more chapter and I think I'll be able to cut the
> other three better.
>
> Do you know of any piano method on line in the public domain
> which I can legally explode like the Carcassi? I asked this over in
> the piano ng too. It would help a lot. daveA
Well, I'm sure there are some, just not something I've ever looked into.
Maybe others will have some suggestions.
Steve
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