Christopher Smith wrote:
Linda,
I have a CD (it's the example set of CD's from Samuel Adler's book "The Study of Orchestration" that has index numbers in addition to track numbers. This means that Track 1 has five or so examples, each with their own index number, so Track 1.1, 1.2, etc. He manages to squeeze many individual examples onto each CD this way, and it is old; one of the first generations of CDs, so I know it's part of the standard from way back. Not all CD players can get to the individual index numbers, so all you can do is start playing Track 1 and wait for the other index numbers to play before you get to 1.5, but it's probably better than endlessly punching "next track" every time the CD is played. You can group short examples in the same category together, hopefully starting with one they are likely to start with, and save their trigger fingers for the mouse button!
Index numbers are great. But almost no players recognise them - certainly not the players sitting in most classrooms. Really, if you go this route, you have to accept you're creating perhaps a dozen tracks, and there's the very small chance that a few people will be able to use the index function (and also that those same people will know that it exists and know what to do).
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