Klarinet Archive - Posting 000669.txt from 1995/05

From: Lisa Gartrell Yeo <ux403@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: weird keys
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 00:51:42 -0400

Skip the Rubank and go with Klose! And then try the Rose 40 Studies, the
Rose 32 Etudes, Baermann, Stark arpeggio studies, etc.!!

Lisa Gartrell Yeo
Victoria, BC
>
>Rich Copeland, after reading the discussions about keys,
>wonders why he doesn't have trouble with "weird" keys.
>Maybe it's because he has a masters degree in music with
>concentrated clarinet study.
>
>One thing we all have to realize is that with something as
>global as the Internet, on a mailing list with a topic as general
>as clarinet, we are going to get input from people with a great
>variance in background on the instrument.
>
>I was the one who started this thread by asking why stage show
>composers write in such weird keys. My formal training in
>the clarinet ended in high school. Even though I was !st chair off
>and on in a high school band that was very competitive, I chose not
>to pursue music in college. As the years went by, I became less
>and less active in music. Now that my daughter is in the high
>school band (same band, incidently), I once more became
>interested in playing and got out my old clarinet. One of the
>reasons I joined this list was to keep my interest active and to
>keep me playing.
>So far it has worked. I am amazed at how much I have learned
>just by reading messages from musicians with so much more
>experience as me. When you are practicing on your own, selecting
>your own music, the temptation is there to pick out music
>that makes you sound as good as you can, instead of music
>that will help you learn. This usually translates into picking out
>pieces in easy keys that has the most difficult technique that one
>can handle. After all, I am doing this mostly for my own enjoyment.
>But Rich's message, along with others on this thread, made me
>realize that to really get the most out of the instrument, I should
>go back to the basics.
>I am not familiar with the Klose books, but I still have my Rubank
>books from Junior High School. I seem to remember that the
>Advanced I and II books had scales and arpeggio exercises, that
>between the two books, covered all the major and minor scales.
>Would it be a good idea to go back to these lessons, or would
>the Klose book be better?
>
>

   
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