[sib-access] handouts for guitar students?
- From: Chris Smart <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:32:12 -0400
Does anybody else on this list teach kids who are new to
music-making and starting to learn notation?
Before I go about reinventing the wheel so-to-speakk, has anybody
else here come up with simple handouts for students? I teach
guitar, mostly to complete beginners, so I need to develop handouts
that show things like the elements of music notation, then simple
melodies like "Mary Had a Little Lamb", a few bars of the Starwars
theme, "When the Saints go Marching In" etc.
I plan on showing these in tab, then notation with note names, then
with fingering and string numbers, etc.
I guess my main concern is how to lay things out on the page so
they aren't cluttered. I'm hoping not to have to bug the people I
live with by asking "so, ok how does this look?" twenty times a day
as I develop this stuff. *laughs*
So, what can I do to feel relatively confident that things are
organized and laid out in a clear manner on the page? For example,
if I write out, say, a short melody like "Mary Had a Little Lamb",
but want to put more such melodies on the same page, how do I know
I've left enough space after the first example melody? Do I put
the title for the next example as technique text, or some other
type of text? How do I know the new melody will start on a new
staff, at the left side of the page?
Thanks for any tips. I freely admit that I've always been a bit
pedantic about this, formatting documents just so, but I naturally
want whatever I hand to students to look professional.
Chris
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