Dr Downing Music

Sandra Downing's method is simplicity itself. Play familiar tunes in treble clef and then, when you have learned them well, turn over and see and play them in bass Clef.

There is no mystery to learning the bass clef. If you can read one clef, you can read another. The secret is practise - but like anything in life, if you find it boring you give up. As a scientist, Sandra's brilliantly analytical mind always gets to the root of any problem - and boredom and formality are major problems in learning music.

 In Bass Clef is Easy, Sandra takes you through beautiful melodies which are not only fun to play they are great to listen to. If you do as Sandra says, you will be playing bass clef immediately and naturally. In only a week or so you will wonder what all the fuss was about.

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Sandra is a research scientist by profession.  A bassoonist of professional standard, bassoon teacher, a student of Hellen Peller, (formerly sub principal bassoonist in the Halle Orchestra), Sandra has a private teaching practice in the UK Stockport area.  It was her expertise in reed making, combined with her scientific approach that resulted in her writing the Bassoonist's Reed Doctor, initially for a friend. 

Her partner Peter Moore, encouraged her to extend the approach to other instruments and other areas of music, thus was born Dr Downing Music.  In addition to the Doctor Books, Sandra has used her scientific  training to research and develop her own highly effective teaching method for the bassoon.