Deliverable

I’ve been talking about writing my book for what seems like ages. Not content to just use the methods of others in my teaching I’ve been piecing together my own method since I’ve been in NYC. Students have come and gone and still my book is not complete… not published.

I know intellectually that up till now this has been a good thing. It is one of those works that waits for the right time to be born., the right moment to come to fruition. I also know that I must finish this damn book. I absolutely cannot teach another year without a text to teach from. I’m arrogant enough to believe that the text I must teach from is my own. So be it.

Where does this leave me? I MUST FINISH THE DAMN BOOK BEFORE I START MY TEACHING AGAIN THE 3RD WEEK OF September!

Ok, so how do I do this? What is “The Book”. That’s helpful to know, right? If you want to finish something by a certain date then you should at the very least know what it is that you want to finish. As I’ve begun writing this down I know more clearly that I actually have two books.

Book one: My GBD-**** stuff (showing them how this can be used not only to read music, but to play chords and arpeggios in any key/ Intervals: Why they’re so important / Scales stuff / R-Grams stuff. This needs to be put into a format that can stand alone. Independent of any technical “trombone stuff”. A general music book that can be used by all instruments. Might include an online link to the beginnning songs for their clef.

Book two: Using GBD-**** to teach kids to read music / Using R-Grams to teach them to read rhythms / Presenting this in a format that includes the technical stuff of how to play the instrument and the songs that they’ll start playing.

I think that my next step then is to outline each book here. I’ll do that in two separate posts.

So, what am I “putting out there”?

I have a concise text to teach from when I begin the third week of September.

• This text will include all of my beginning songs laid in “Redux/Song/R-Gram” format
• All beginning songs will be posted online on my teaching website.

More to follow. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 29th, 2005 at 7:54 pm and is filed under Projects, Putting It Out There, The Book.