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Familiar Tunes in Tenor
These are all melodies that most people will be familiar with. However, all cello students will learn at some point.
Over the course of learning cello students must learn many skills, not the least of which is reading music in THREE different clefs.
Reading the Tenor Clef is one of those skills that students, year after year, find confusing and frustrating. I have found that most students feel that this clef is seemingly unnecessary. None the less, composers continue to use it. After struggling through it myself, as a student, and seeing nearly all of my own students have the same response it occurred to me that the approach must be altered.
Firstly, the introduction of the clef should be different.
Secondly, ease students into the skill.
Thirdly, utilize familiar pieces but transposed to Tenor Clef.
Most students seem stunned due to the sudden way the clef is thrust upon them.
Therefore, by giving students more time to digest the idea before requiring them to read the clef
directly in a new and unfamiliar piece of music they would get somewhat comfortable with the new
position of notes on the staff.
This idea of using familiar music and transposing and arranging it for pedagogical use it by no means a new idea,
but it would seem that going to this length is somewhat unique. Regardless, I do hope that you will find it to be
useful and will spark appreciation for the quizzical use of a clef that, at first, seems superfluous.
Practice well and may you achieve that badge of honor in reading music in the Tenor Clef.
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