Detailing a complete curriculum for beginning students based on the concept of audiation is beyond the scope of a website designed for university students in brass techniques courses; however, preservice music teachers should carefully reflect on certain basic principles that have important implications in beginning instrumental instruction.
- Students should be able to sing everything that they play; sometimes the best instrumental music instruction does not require the playing of instruments.Which of course means that teachers must ask students to sing everything that they play.
- While method books provide useful materials and resources, there is more to music than playing the single line melodies typically found in them.
- Notation is an important skill for instrumentalists, but teachers should consider delaying its introduction until students develop certain basic musical and physical skills. Students are already juggling multiple variables in learning instruments without introducing such a large concept into the mix immediately.