Having screw-on colored skirts got me thinking about kids.
If I do ever start building sets for kids and teaching lessons (let’s call this the “Leo Rowsome Approach”), I could hand kids color upgrades when they hit certain milestones. The coder dojo I started here in town used wristbands this way, calling them “belts”, like in karate.
How It Could Work
When you first start out, you get a practice set with no skirts: just have exposed threads. You have to assemble the set, and show up to a couple of dojo sessions, then you get white skirts.
When you’re able to play a full D major scale in the lower octave, holding each note for 8 seconds, you get yellow skirts.
When you can walk up in thirds to a second octave B starting on D (C♯) and G (C♮), and can play one tune from memory, you get blue.
Green happens when you can play three full sets from memory, and are using some ornamentation.
Orange might be playing in three intermediate sessions.
Red, you’re playing with drones. You’re regularly playing in sessions now.
Purple, you’re playing with regulators. You may have led multiple sessions.
Black has got to be when you’re playing on reeds you made.