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herdish23
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(7/21/00 8:01:29 am)
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teaching stuff
How does the system in the US work?
How old are you when you begin playing the big concertos etc.? Or
how long have you been playing when you start playing stuff like
that is better to ask? Do you play ethudes from your very first
lessons etc.?
Basicly everthing and nothing related to
teaching would interest me!
Thanks!
Herdis
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Rebecca1234
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(7/21/00 10:46:13 am)
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teaching stuff
Speaking from the Canadian view.
There really is no offical system on when we are "allowed" to play a
major concerto.
In Canada we do have exams at the Royal
Conservatory of Music.
There are 10 grades and 3 grades of theory and history. Every year
the music gets harder, and after grade 8 is when u get into the
concertos. But trust me the stuff before the concertos can be hard.
Im really not an expert on the cello exam of the RCM, because i
havent had the time nor the chance to work on an exam (they take
over a year to prepare), on the cello, but i have done up to grade 7
on the piano. When u do the exam, u are in a room alone with an
examiner, and u play 3 pieces (by memomry, or u get points docked
off), scales (the examiner asks to play one that is in grade u r
studing, for sx. grade 1 would have c,d...grade 10 will have 4
octuve c-cminor), sight reading, and listening excersises. The exam
takes roughly 15-1 hour to complete
thats basically what us
canadian kids do.......But we dont have to follow RCM guidelines,
teachers can do whatever they can, as long as the know what they are
doing
Chao
Rebecca 
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herdish23
Registered User
(7/28/00 12:49:29 pm)
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Please
answer!!!!!
To everyone using this
board!
I will ask differently, may be some of you will
answer!
How does your teacher teach you? Do you learn by any
method or a special program? What do you like about your lessons and
your teacher, and what don't you like / or what could be
better?
Do you get inspired by your teacher? What do you feel
after a lesson: This is great, I have to go home and practice my
cello! And you do it, or do you feel depressed and thinks you have
to practice more, but don't do in reality?
I am asking all
these questions because I want to be a teacher some day and want to
know about how you think you learn the most and what you think are
good about the way you have learnt to play and what's not so good.
Please just say something about teaching, tell about your dream
teacher or whatever you want.
This might help me becoming a
better
teacher!!!!
Tanks!!!!!!!!!!!
Herdis
And
Rebecca, thank you!
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CelloFreak
Registered User
(7/28/00 3:54:16 pm)
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teaching stuff
My teacher uses the Suzuki books for
pieces and Schroeder for etudes. I have been doing etudes the entire
time I've studied with him. Most of the students who would be
interested in doing a concerto are members of the local youth
symphony, so we usually learn a concerto when we get to be juniors
or seniors. Hope this is helpful!
Eric
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Corrina
Connor
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(7/30/00 1:30:22 am)
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teaching stuff
Before I had a teacherI did Suzuki
up to book V ,and now I am working on Bach Suite 1, multiple scales
and Dotzauer etudes, a Goltermann Concerto and other bits.
My
teacher just selects what he thinks might be appropriate, and we
just work through them.
I think if anyone wants to use the
Suzuki Books I think that it is a good idea to do the training as
well, as it makes one much more confident to teach.
Corrina 
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CelloFreak
Registered User
(7/31/00 12:57:18 pm)
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Addendum
Reading Corrina's post reminded me
of something else. My teacher usually begins the Bach Suites when a
student finishes book 4 (or 5, I can't remember). After the Suites,
he does the Beethoven Sonatas.
Eric
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ollec
Registered User
(7/31/00 4:14:21 pm)
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teaching stuff
My teacher doesn't like Suzuki after
the first couple of books and I'm inclined to agree with her. It's
sort of demeaning when the piece you're playing is a transcribed
violin piece and Suzuki thinks so little of you that he deems it
necessary to write the fingerings over every note. I've only been
playing for a year and a half, but I'm playing the Prelude to Bach's
1st Suite. It's so much more fun when I can listen to Yo-Yo Ma or
Pablo Casals playing the same piece as I am.
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Corrina
Connor
Registered
User
(8/2/00 9:53:40 pm)
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Suzuki
corrections
Well, not old, but you know what I
mean.
Actually, Dr Suzuki did not write the cello books, he
only wrote the violin books.
As most children start Suzuki
young, the fingerings are written in to help the parents, who are
the "home teachers".
Most of Book 1 is folk songs, so they can be
played on any instrument!
The others are transcribed violin
pieces because this allows violins and cellos to play to
together.
Anyway, after Book 2 there aren't many transcribed
pieces.
Corrina
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herdish23
Registered User
(8/26/00 5:57:44 am)
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thanks!
Thanks for all the replies. I am
really sorry I havnt writteh before our computer is broken and now
I am at yhe public library.
Well, thanks it is really nice of
you all!
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