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If suggest a method like Essential Elements (or other compatible method) that has an individualized, online companion that allows the student to hear and mimic his/her instrument being played well.
I’m doing it right now and it’s been a challenge with cameras off. But we are using flipgrid and smart music to help. The kids are progressing forward despite the challenges.
Try 8notes.com. You can switch to screen share for the student to follow along or send as a pdf to encourage practicing. Percussion is limited but I would stick to learning rudiments, anyway. GL
I think it’s possible. I’m moving forward with it. I’ve narrowed down instrument choice to flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone for the first 9 weeks. Maybe longer.
We did it. We’re about a chapter and a half behind (we use Measures of Success and it tooks our first-years a whole semester to finish the first opus). It’s a smaller class than we would have recruited in a normal year. If you commit to not losing sleep over things you can’t control, and you accept the reduced pace, it can be done, and it prevents a large hole from forming in your program.