Talk:The Ocarina Method Book

The book's purpose and style (please edit this, even though I wrote it like a letter)
OK hi. The basic intention of this wikibook is to make a more practical version of the Mezzetti method books available at. He states on his site that things are creative commons (no derivatives, share alike), but to my knowledge, these method books are in the public domain. Anyone contributing significantly to the curriculum of the wikibook should at least browse the mezzetti material if not actually do some of the lessons.

Our audience:

Ocarinists seem to be all over the map but I think the book should be conscious of the following three groups.


 * young zelda/anime fans. These people will want to practice on some video game music, maybe see some drawings that appeal to them etc.  Some video game pieces are very simple (and some is not) and it would be nice if the wikibook supplied some backtracks and a fast way to satisfy them with the ability to play a song.  Then, the wikibook should convince them to practice further and polish their skills with more advanced music.


 * people with a more general interest in playing music and will play ocarina as their first (or nearly) instrument. again, it will be important to try to get them playing a familiar song early on. They will want something more popular than anime music.


 * musicians. I expect this group to be less concerned with learning a song right away and more inclined to do fingering drills.

The following things about the mezzetti books should be considered
 * the mezzetti books launch the student a bit sharply into playing sheet music without enough advice.


 * the wikibook needs to have an introduction to some common styles of ocarina (4,6,8,10,12 hole, fingering styles etc).


 * the wikibook should be more neatly divided into reasonable lessons, giving the student the satisfaction of finishing one and moving to the next.


 * the wikibook can make use of audio, video and midi. for example we can have midi backtracks for end-of-section projects.

On the current todo list:

 * 1) register and post here about how you can contribute
 * 2) figure the rest out later!
 * 3) add art work and music to make the book more attractive to young and old ocarina players
 * 4) transcribe mezzetti material into the exercise section
 * 5) recruit other editors

Table of contents of TOMB
These are the sections I think we should start with Alejandro Erickson (talk) 23:55, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Fingering Charts
 * different kinds? We need contributors for this
 * Introduction to sheet music
 * redirect to another book for the moment?
 * Exercises
 * This is where the bulk of our work will be for the moment

Resources
Mezzetti books (someone upload it!) We have permission |permission to use material on.