Klarinet Archive - Posting 000407.txt from 2000/12

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] scales
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:51:45 -0500

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:30:46 -0000, clarinet1@-----.uk said:

> > Well, though obviously it doesn't matter what scheme you use -- I hope
> > that nobody here will disagree with that, although I have my doubts,
> > given the sheep-like quality of the canonic Klarinet subscriber -- what
> > Howard actually recommended was to do C/Eb/F#/A, C#/E/G/B, and so on.
> > Admittedly, Stewart didn't make that clear.
> >
> > But, make up your own stuff, for heaven's sake. Are you men, or mice?
> > (Or women, or mice?) Who do you think Howard Klug is? He's just this
> > bloke, who happens to be a friend of mine, but....so what?
> >
>
> Tony,
>
> I'm happy to do my own thing. And although my scales are a little
> rusty, I consider myself knowledgeable enough musically to devise my
> own exercises* to strengthen my areas of weakness. I just didn't
> understand the post. If you start going up a diminished (7th) chord,
> you'll only ever get four notes before you're back (an octave from)
> where you started. I've not seen the Klug book, so was unaware of the
> reference. It was a simple question because I didn't understand
> Stewart's meaning. You admit yourself that it wasn't clear, so I
> hardly think that you can deduce from my question that I am a canonic
> (is that musical or liturgical?) klarinet subscriber with no mind of
> my own.
>
> Ian
>
> *For those interested, one of my favourites is to take a melody (a
> fairly simple one) and go through every key either chromatically or
> modulating by a 4th or 5th until I'm back in the original key. You get
> used to playing in all available keys, it helps with quick
> transposition and (depending on your choice of melody) can be combined
> with staccato/legato etc.

Quite right, Ian, and I consider myself chastised, in your case.

You'd be surprised, though, at the degree to which, on this list,
people are unwilling to think for themselves. It was to those
unwilling-to-think-for-themselves people that I addressed my post. I'm
sorry if you thought it was directed at you.

Some people here think that your ability as a clarinet player is to be
judged by the 'pointiness' of your chin, and how little you move when
you play.

Tony
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