[Pibe-division] music Braille instruction question

[Greg Aikens]

By the Dancing Dots materials do you mean the course called “An Introduction to Music for the Blind Student?” This is a fairly thorough course but it is not intended for a student to teach themselves. It would be at an appropriate level to have a TVI or music teacher use it to teach the student. I have used it with a 6th grade student. We did not go through the entire course but used several parts. The link is:
http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/currdet.htm

The book “How to Read Braille Music” by Betty Krolick is good in conjunction with the Primer of Braille Music. I find these two compliment each other and they are what I used to teach myself braille music as an adult. These titles are available from a variety of sources, including  BARD. 

This page from the National Resource Center for Blind Musicians has lots of good info on teaching, learning, producing braille music:
http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/currdet.htm

I hope some of this helps.

-Greg



> On Oct 1, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Amy_Brush--- via Pibe-division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
>  
> I have a sixth grade Braille reading student that is getting interested in music.  His music teacher (sighted in mainstream classroom, no Braille skills) is interested in assisting him with learning the theory and basics.  At this time, he is trying out Percussion (drums) with him. 
>  
> Do you have a suggestion for a Braille music program that a sighted teacher could manage to help him out?  I suggested the Dancing Dots programs, but the teacher felt it may be too high level (thinking 9th grade level). 
>  
> I am not familiar enough with Music Braille myself to be of great help to him, and don't have time to take a course right now. 
>  
> Thank you for any suggestions you may have. 
>  
> Amy
> _______________________________________________
> Pibe-division mailing list
> Pibe-division at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/pibe-division_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Pibe-division:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/pibe-division_nfbnet.org/gpaikens%40gmail.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/pibe-division_nfbnet.org/attachments/20151001/e289a884/attachment.html>