DownBeat March 5, 1970 [antikvár]

Another big "plus" fromdual purpose Set-O-Matic* tom-tom holders 1*For a right or lefthanded drummer just swing the mounting 180°. 2Convert a single tom-tom mounting to a double, using only the center section of IMo. 160!NO. 150 SiNOLE SET-O-MATIC TOM HOLDER $25KNO. 160 DOUBLE SET-O-MATIC TOM HOLDER. .$30 NO. 160CS, CENTER SECTION $15STURDIEST HOLDERS EVER DESIGNED Set up in seconds, with tom-tom in any position. Four simple adjustments eliminate any future settings. You're always ready to go! Can be changed instantly to suit right or left handed drummer. Bracket on bass drum is located at same spot for single or double toms. Adaptable to double torn setup by using No. 160 center section ($15). 'Pat. applied for^?mqe^UandDRUM COMPANY6633 N. MILWAUKEE AVE.; NILES, ILL. 60648By CHARLES SUBERTHE REBUTTALS ate beginning to come in on our suggestions for improved music education.Most of our mail on the general subject of contemporary music becoming part of school music is highly favorable to our recommendations. The volume of mail is about equally divided between educators and students. Most of the student correspondents seem to be music majors who urge us on to help make their future music teaching jobs more worthwhile. They also ask a good many specific questions; such as where jazz-rock courses arc offered, possibility of scholarships, and where one can study arranging with a good teacher.Most of the letters from educators also ask specific questions, such as where they can take brush-up courses; where they can get some good, new contemporaryiTi'.i.'T-'- !i.music for their students to play and leam; and the sources for new method books on class guitar, jazz-rock arranging, etc. The educators ?so ask questions about in-the-field problems of changing music teaching concepts. Of course, some of these questions are really defensive reactions to things unknown, but they deserve answers for everybody's benefit.One educator writes (I have also heard this from several others): "Rock shouldn't be taught in the schools because the kids will recognize it as a ploy to satisfy them. And besides, kids want rock as their own thing and school exposure would violate this privacy." OK, that's a good point. Let's look at it.First off, let us again make clear that we do not advocate that rock should be taught in the schools. We advocate that any music that will motivate the student and thereby unleash his own musical creativitymust be made available, from nursery to graduate school. Rock is just one bright pebble on the beach. There are many other music labels, many other styles and forms, that have involved young people and will keep them Involved.It is true that people of any age are somewhat jealous of what they believe to be their own life styles. Kids "discovered" rock (even though older heads stylized it and continue to make most of the profit from it) and do find a kind of privacy within its crowded noise. And it is further true that public school administration and/or uninspired teaching can dry up the juices of anything fresh and meaningful. But that is the point; it's the way the subject is handled and who the head handler may be. If the teacher is afraid, timid, defensive and not capable of communicating with students, then rock or Bach or Sousa will be only sterile exercises. But if the teacher can bring knowledge of basic music to the students and allow them more choice and flexibility on how that knowledge will be used, then the students will have made their own contribution to their own learning. That is really the goal: fusing the expertise of the teacher with the creative stuff of the student. That is education; doing it any other way is to spoonfeed pap.^THE ESSENCE OF GEORGE RUSSELL GEORGE RUSSELL'S LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT"Surpasses any musical knowledge I have heen exposed to"ORNETTE COLEMANGEORGE RUSSELL'S LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT is on officio! course at the New Englond Conservolory of Music and the University of Indiana.To purchase the LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT send S18.50 to CONCEPT PUBLISHING CO Suite 12 Eost 41st Street, New York, N.Y. 10017.GEORGE RUSSELL is now accepting students ttte New York and Boston areas. For informotion write to the above address.MORE CUTTING POWER!AVEDIS ZILDJIANNEWfiBTHi-HÂÎSjdsschool of musicoffering A PROGRAM OF COORDINATED STUDY IN JAZZ. ROCK AND POP by a faculty of outstanding professional musicians PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMAS AWARDED COMPOSITION-ARRANGING INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE Enrollment open to full and part-time students. For admission and scholarship information. JACK WERTHEIMER, DIRECTORjds school of music 252 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 02116downbeatPERCUSSION issuedoledMarch19/on sale March 5