Klarinet Archive - Posting 000168.txt from 1998/09

From: "Jay D. Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] To All Clarinet Experts, Teachers, and Students. Please read!
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:06:04 -0400

I'm to old to remember how long it took me to learn this page but
I would like to offer some advise that might help. The fact that you
are discouraged because you have not mastered this page in three days
leads me to think that you are being to hard on yourself and you may be trying
to accomplish too much too fast. One question I would like to ask is how fast
are you taking these exercises. It has been my experience wiith young students
and with myself that there is a tendency to try to run before you can walk. Go back and
try the exercises very slowly (quarter note ='s 60) first and do not increase your tempo until you can play each
note with proper execution. Then just increase you speed slowly. Go for accuracy not speed.
Don't put a time limit on yourself. If you do, you will try to progress to quickly which can create frustration.
If you try to go to fast before you are ready you only have to go back and do it again. You may find that over
time you will progress more quickly because you will have laid a solid foundation. Patience and diligence,
expecially during periods of slow progress, are the only real paths to improvement.

Jay Webler

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:33:22 -0400 (EDT), Eugene Chan wrote:

>Hello, I'm 15 years old (student, of course), and I only have 5 -6 years
>clarinet experience, so not very good. I have no private teachers, only
>in school, but we only play with the ensemble. Anyways, I recently bought
>the Rubank Intermediate Claarinet Method book, and found it pretty good,
>but also pretty hard.
>
>If you have it, you'll remember the studies/methods on F Major, with the
>scales, studies, and chord studies. On that one page, I spent 3 days
>working on it (each half hour), and still haven't mastered it.
>
>I'm just wondering, if you have the Rubank book, how long did it take you
>to master the book?
>
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