Klarinet Archive - Posting 000435.txt from 2000/12

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] scales
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 22:25:56 -0500

on 12/7/00 3:20 PM, Tony Pay wrote:

>what
>Howard actually recommended was to do C/Eb/F#/A, C#/E/G/B, and so on.

...and to further explain the rationale, it is that you do major (C
major) parallel minor (C minor) relative major (to C minor, which is Eb
major) etc. It's a way of organizing the keys that helps to avoid doing
all the easy scales, then blowing off the the harder ones, when you're
first learning them. "The Clarinet Doctor" has lots of varied pattern
studies based on scales, and a lot of useful information based on
articles Howard wrote for "The Clarinet". One of my former students took
his weekend course on teaching clarinet students, which includes a copy
of the book, and found them both (the course and the book) very
interesting and useful.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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