Ds came home from school today with a trombone. It's a lovely instrument in perfect condition and to be honest the whole family has massive trombone envy and we're being extra nice to ds so he lets us have a go. So far, so good.
Everyone in his class has an instrument from the county music service for this term, for a weekly whole-class lesson. It's not all trombones or even all brass: there's flutes, clarinets, horns, oboes, saxophones, trumpets and cornets. How on earth do you start thirty different children on 8 different instruments with a weekly hour-long lesson? Will he learn anything meaningful this term? He's had his first lesson where the kids got the instruments but he hasn't been shown how to blow it or even hold it. Should I find a teacher for him or just go with the flow and accept he's not going to learn anything this term? Has anyone else got experience of this?
I'm apprehensive because I have enough experience of strings and woodwind to be of some use to my kids but I have no experience of brass and can make basically one sound with the trombone wherever I put the slide!
What can I do to help ds make the most of this experience?
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kippersyllabub · 12/01/2016 20:24
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