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> A trip down amnesia lane..., What tutor books did YOU first learn from?
ma non troppo
post Jul 17 2012, 10:10 PM
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This was suggested in another thread. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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Piano (from about 1973-4 onwards)

A First and Second Piano Book for Little Jacks and Jills
Schaum Piano Course
A book called "Sugar and Spice", and one called "The Big Note Book", I think.


I may think of others in due course.
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post Jul 17 2012, 10:22 PM
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Late 80s....I remember Technitunes, and definitely at least some of the Young Violinist's Repertoire. I'm pretty sure I played the Steibelt Divertimento for Grade 3. What was in between, I have no idea!
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post Jul 17 2012, 10:22 PM
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post Jul 17 2012, 10:28 PM
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Me and My Piano 1 & 2, then Piano Time 2
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post Jul 17 2012, 10:32 PM
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Eta Cohen violin tutors 1,2 &3 for violin (1978!!)

John Thompson piano course in 1983
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post Jul 17 2012, 10:35 PM
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QUOTE(Sunrise @ Jul 17 2012, 11:32 PM) *

Eta Cohen violin tutors 1,2 &3 for violin (1978!!)

John Thompson piano course in 1983



Oh yes, I used Eta Cohen for violin too.
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post Jul 18 2012, 02:20 AM
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John Thompson's Teaching Little Fingers to Play

About a 3rd of the John Thompson Grade 1 book

Then it was straight into AMEB preliminary exam material!
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post Jul 18 2012, 05:59 AM
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Little Jacks and Jills for me on piano too.
Violin was Neil Mackay violin tutor and Rowsby Woof preliminary exercises.
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post Jul 18 2012, 06:32 AM
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Walter Carroll...'Scenes from a Farm'...was that the title? It's a long time ago (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) .

I'm sure I had two or three Walter Carroll books.

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post Jul 18 2012, 06:42 AM
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Learnt from 1985 ish and used a mixture of Fanny Waterman Piano Lessons and John Schaum's Piano Course but I can't remember how they fit together! Plus Microjazz.

Had a break after G4 and restarted in 1992 with a smattering of repertoire including Microjazz and Fanny Waterman's Recital Repertoire

People on these forums are always talking about having good or bad technique. Until I started teaching I didn't realise there was such a thing and have no idea if mine is good or bad! How is one to know?
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post Jul 18 2012, 07:12 AM
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A Tune a Term Day for Clarinet, Book One. I still have my copy, but it looks a bit sorry for itself now.

I don't remember having a book for piano, which probably explains an awful lot. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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post Jul 18 2012, 07:19 AM
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A Tune A Day for flute.
The New Recorder Tutor by Stephen F Goodyear (books 1, 2 and treble).

As I started piano aged 17 with a Grade 8 in flute already under my belt, my teacher gave me Bartok's First Term at the Piano, with the immortal line, "I think Bartok's pupils must have been better than mine". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

And finally, Play the Viol by Alison Crum. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jul 18 2012, 07:34 AM
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At the moment I can't remember the title of my first book - well it was way back in 1950 when I started. I have often wondered which book it was and perhaps someone will recognise it if I say I can picture on a right hand page several little tunes -probably 8 bars in length and one of them, which turned around middle C position and was in three four time was called "On the Lake". I must have driven everyone mad by repeatedly playing it.

I was taught by the then young music teacher of the local (boys only) grammar school who rejoiced in the name of Mr Britten - but I'm afraid it wasn't Benjamin. He was a lovely young man and although I can't even remember his face I can remember what I owe him. He must have been very modern for the time as I had real visual aids - a box of home made letter name cards which I had to place on the correct keys.(When I wasn't poking holes in the green silky cloth behind the fret work front of the tinny old piano) I remember doing the cards one day when I was supposed to be practising and my mother coming in to see what the silence was about and saying "I thought you had got past that stage!"

I don't remember what I went on to next. In fact the next thing I remember is moving to London and going to the teacher round the corner who gave me a dreadful piece several pages long called "Tarantella". she was a very poor teacher and after two years of getting nowhere fast I changed teachers and progressed to the Clementi sonatinas which I loved - very grown up blue book. Then I started exam stuff and also bashed my way through the Methodist Hymnbook and a couple of red cloth covered chorus books.

After that I changed teachers again and got onto the real stuff!
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post Jul 18 2012, 07:40 AM
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QUOTE(maggiemay @ Jul 17 2012, 11:22 PM) *

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Me too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) In about 1979/80 I think (I know I took Grade 1 in 1981 because my certificate says so but no idea how long I had been learning before that! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) )

I think I also did some stuff from a John Thompson tutor book that my sister had used before me.
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post Jul 18 2012, 07:44 AM
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Piano - no idea!

Cello - my teacher's own method plus Piatti

Flute - A Tune a Day
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