Klarinet Archive - Posting 001052.txt from 1998/10

From: "Jay D. Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Hi!
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:33:26 -0400

My Clarinet teacher is also classically oriented and the first half of my lesson
has been the Klose' scale page since I started with her 3 months ago. I am now
playing them for her from memory. I take two 1 hour lessons a month and the first 20 minutes
is playing scales for her. After that we go over articulation exercises. Lastly, we go over
the Concerto which I am working on,which happens to be the Weber 2nd Clarinet concerto
that we've heard so much about lately.

I have found that this concentration on scales has helped a great deal when going
to other exercises on my own. It has also helped my sight reading.
Believe it or not I have actually started to enjoy practicing scales. Could this be
the first sign of senility.

Jay Webler

>Maybe these exercises are widely done on the clarinet too, but my clarinet
>teachers were all classically oriented and tended to teach from exercise
>books and my sax teacher is jazz oriented and tries to teach things that
>you'll keep in your head and do automatically. I think it's good to be able
>to do both no matter what kind of instrument or music you play.
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