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GENERAL MUSIC
It all started eight years ago with a single method book, Barb Philipak's Aecorder Karate: A Highly Motivational Method For Young Players (Plank Road Publishing). Today, it's an approach to music education that has been adopted in various schools and dojos (martial arts training centers) across the country. In a nutshell, Recorder Karate is a program in which music students earn belts as they learn new and progressively more difficult pieces and /or skills on the recorder. For example, successfully learning "White Cross Buns" will get a student a white belt, while "Ode to Joy," a more complex tune, will yield a black belt. (The "belts" are often colored tassels that can be hung on the instrument; see page 63...