Klarinet Archive - Posting 000806.txt from 1998/06

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] A beginning teacher teaching beginners.
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:16:27 -0400

My suggestion is the "Learn to Play Clarinet" books by White, and someone
else. (Gimme some slack here - it's the summer, and my brain has shut
down. Not to mention the fact that I'm sitting in a lab, and not at home
with my library, so I can't check.) It's a very well done repertoire
aimed at beginners, and addresses the problems beginners have quite
nicely. At the same time, it uses familiar melodies that the students
will have fun with. The second book actually contains excerpts from K622
(Mvt. III) and Brahms 2nd Sonata.

This book is also good for intermediate and advancing students, because it
contains a lot of scale excersizes that help with common problems: ie, too
much wrist movement between throat Ab, A, and Bb, slurring large distances
over the break.

I'm pretty sure it's published by Belwin, in two volumes.
(It's also a VERY good book for saxers trying to learn clarinet. "Whoa!
Just how many ledger lines am I gonna have to learn down there!" ^_^ )

Shouryu Nohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
Coffee Drinker, Musician, Otaku, Jesus Freak, Admirer of Women
(Not necessarily in that order)
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- Max Lucado (The Eva quotes will return later. ^_^ )

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