#method books

[abbawkchio]

does anyone know any good french horn books? i wanna get a song book of like songs i recognize or pop songs that people would know but i got nothing. google is no help. lemme know if you have any songbook recs

[sassysailorsiren]

In other news

I have very strong feelings about the "Piano Adventures" method book series for kids. UTTER BULLSHIT I hear teachers who swear by them rave about how great they are. I see them as overpriced ripoffs. They make parents buy like 5 books at a time for one level. Theory book, lesson book, performance book, recital book, whatever I don't have them memorized. And all the books are just fluffed up with silly pictures and very little substance. It makes me so mad. It's chaotic to try to read, as a teacher. And the students don't know what to do with it either. Waste of time and money! Why are they so popular? They don't do a good job of teaching how to read music. I worked with a kid yesterday who did the first two levels on these books and he couldn't name the notes on the keyboard and he didn't know the finger numbers. Granted, that is probably the teacher's fault. But still. Ugh