DENNIS E

While Dennis was teaching at Granite City High School in Granite City, Illinois, he witnessed the widely divergent skill sets of the students entering his high school instrumental program. A few years later when Dennis began teaching at Grigsby Middle School in Granite City, he set out to create a teaching system designed to give all students the foundational skills they needed to be well-established young musicians. "I wanted to design a series of exercises that gave every student in my ensembles the opportunity to gain the skills they needed to experience higher levels of musical success," says Dennis Meyer. "Once I started teaching the foundational skills found in the TEX method books to my students, I saw a dramatic increase in the technical proficiency of my ensembles. It took me twelve years to complete this set of books. I am happy to share my work with the instrumental music community as a way of giving back to the activity that I have loved since fourth grade."... TEX are..