Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 1997/05

From: kathi@-----.com (Kathi A)
Subj: chromatic exercise
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:09:39 -0400

>Kathi,
> My teacher fully believed in an exercise that I still use to
>warm-up with. It goes like this:
> e-f-e-f-f#-f-e-f-f#-g-f#-f-e-f-f#-g-g#-g-f#-f-e and so forth as
>high as you want to go. played at a fairly rapid tempo it requires a bit
>of dexerity and helps with all of those wonderful chromatic fingerings we
>all love.
> elizabeth
Thanks, I'll try that. It has been getting kind of old just sitting down and
playing the chromatic scale up and down a million times. Does any one else
have ideas for a chromatic practice? TIA
Kathi A