Klarinet Archive - Posting 000377.txt from 2000/12

From: "andy.mich" <andy.mich@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Scales?
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 07:05:29 -0500

Thanks so much for sparing the time, I will follow your instructions
clolsely and let you know how I get on. I was beginning to wonder if I was
just to old to Learn! LOL!
Many thanks again.
Shell.

Original message.
> Hi Shell,
>
> Your question is impressive. It shows mental awareness of the situation
> which most pupils don't bother to think about.
>
> Here are some suggestions:
>
> 1) Take one octave of one scale and concentrate on it more or less
> exclusively for say a week
> 2) Say the note names at a slow steady tempo. Repeat this -slowly- until
> it is fluid
> 3) Do #2 by memory
> 4) Read and say the note names (still slowly and steadily) and finger
> each note on the clarinet as you say it. (You give the command to finger
> by saying the note name.)
> 5) Do #4 by memory
> 6) Read and play the scale and "say" the note names (try to imagine) to
> yourself as you play.
> 7) Do #6 by memory
> 8) Start over from the beginning every day for a while because doing it
> once succesfully does not mean you learned it. You have to give it a
> rest and do it again.
>
> This was all with one octave of one scale. Only after this is easy, go
> to the next octave or the next scale. Enjoy the confindence which comes
> by this work. The clou here is asscociating the note names with the tone
> and with the fingering. It is a very common mistake for pupils to only
> associate the printed note image with the fingering. The limits of this
> method sound like what you described.
>
> Now put your two octaves together when you're ready. Do the scales in
> lots of variations. Articulation for starters: slurred, tongued, slurred
> in twos, two slurred and two tongued. Rhythm changes, dynamic changes
> not to mention scales in thirds, fourths etc. are all possible.
>
> Don't forget to do your arpeggios in the same fashion! And other chords.
> Keep it up and you'll be ripping in no time!
>
> Good luck!
> David
>

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