For one semester/quarter courses in woodwind methods.

Teaching Woodwinds has draws on the authors thirty-five years of experience teaching woodwinds to students. Organized by specific teach topics from the fundamentals of hand and finger position to articulation and intonation.

Drawing on a classic set of 19^th century teacher/student duets, the included twenty-five class lessons enable students to learn by doing and by listening as they play duets with the instructor.

H. Gene Griswold has taught woodwinds methods at Towson University for the past twenty five years.

Introduction                                                     

Acknowledgements                                           

Abbreviations Used in this Book                                  

Fingering Diagrams Used in this Book                                   

1.  FUNDAMENTALS                                           

Daily Care and Assembly                                         

Body Position                                              

Hand/Finger Position                                       

Embouchure                                           

Mouthpiece/Reed Pitches                              

Pop Tests                                            

Touch-Tone-Teaching                                        

Breathing                                                                                                      

Articulation                                                                                                  

Intonation                                                                                                     

Vibrato                                                                                                                     

2.    ADDITIONAL TEACHING GUIDES AND CHECKLISTS                        

Student Selection                                    

Common Problems                                      

Selecting Instruments                                      

Single Reed Mouthpiece Selection                           

Single Reed Selection                                      

Single Reed Adjustment                                     

Double Reed Selection and Adjustment                             

Emergency Repairs                                    

Lower Single Reed Instruments                                   

Transposition Chart                                        

3.  HANDS-ON OVERVIEW: PART I                        

      Practice Tips                                              

Introduction

Basic Scales                                                             

Hand Positioning                                                         

Octave/Register Mechanisms                                   

Primary Break Crossings                                                

Middle Registers                                                         

More on Break Crossings                                            

More Octave/Register Mechanisms                       

4.  HANDS-ON OVERVIEW: PART II                             

Basic Scale: Chromatic–Low Registers                               

Basic Scale: Chromatic–Middle Registers                    

Clarinet Throat Tones: Training the Left Hand          

Break Crossings: Chromatic                                         

Right-Pinky Key Clusters–Low Registers                 

Left-Pinky Key Clusters–Low Registers                  

Right-Pinky Key Clusters–Middle Registers              

Left-Pinky Key Clusters–Middle Registers               

Right Forefinger Clusters                                              

Left Forefinger Clusters                                         

Twig Keys                                            

Role of the Thumbs                                         

Bassoon Thumb Clusters                               

5.  HANDS-ON OVERVIEW: PART III                            

Introducing High Registers                                 

Introducing Secondary Break Crossings                            

Connecting the Three Registers                                   

6.  FINGERING REVIEW                                       

Seven Steps for Learning/Teaching Fingerings (See Chapters 3, 4, and 5)

Fingering Charts for the Basic Fingerings                  

      Hands-on Review: Major, Minor, and Chromatic Scales                    

      Blank Fingering Charts                                         

7.  TECHNIQUE/TUNES:

      TWENTY-FIVE CLASS LESSONS                              

8.  TEACHER / STUDENT DUETS                                

9.  ALTERNATE FINGERINGS                                   

When to Teach                                              

General Categories of Alternate Fingerings                       

Frequently Used Alternate Fingerings                             

Application of Alternate Fingerings                        

      Chromatic                                      

      Arpeggios                                      

      Trills                                               

Woodwind Quintet                                           

10.  REVIEW QUESTIONS                                                  

11. TERMINOLOGY  

12.  BLANK FINGERING CHARTS                                

BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                   

Books                                                                                      

Web Source                                                                           

Woodwind Anthology     

The Instrumentalist      

 INDEX