This method provides abundant scope for teacher adaptation, individualization, creative input from teachers and students, and opportunity for students to work individually, in small groups, or in large ensembles in a traditional band set up. All skills and concepts are taught first by rote, and then students and teachers work and play through the exercises together.

All sung melodies are represented on partial staves, so students focus on becoming staff and interval literate before learning to read note names. Sung solfege pitches are designated as sounds, played pitches on the
standard staff are given standard note names. Through this process, students are brought from what they already know (pitches either repeat, go up, or go down) to a thorough understanding of how a musical staff represents these pitch behaviours, and how to read these symbols musically and accurately.

Students are encouraged to write their own exercises as they progress through the sequence of skills, and these exercises can be shared with other musicians in their own sections. In this way, students help create
the method by which they learn.

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