Klarinet Archive - Posting 000736.txt from 2002/04

From: "Jay Webler" <webler1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] memorizing: suggestions?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:32:12 -0400

Know your scale inside out. The Clarinet is very difficult to visualize
like a piano
because the fingerings are diffrent for each octave. A thorough knowledge
of
the Clarinet keyboard through the constant study of scales and arpeggios is
the
only way I know of to aid memorization. Using the scale, arpeggio section
in the
Klose method can help you with this task.

Remember, "If the Clarinet was so easy, everybody would be doing it". Or
was that professional baseball.

Jay Webler
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paolo Leva" <paolo.leva@-----.se>
Subject: [kl] memorizing: suggestions?

> Hi,
>
> I am quite frustrated by the difficulties in learning by memory my
clarinet
> music. It is very easy for me to learn by heart my piano music, I do not
> even need to try, if I study a piece for some time than I suddenly *know
> it*. But with the clarinet this does not happen.
>
> I believe that the differences are in the fact that in the piano playing I
> can use my viusal memory and I find it much easier to identify clusters
> (chords, patterns..) even in the melody.
>
> Do you have any suggestion how to *intelligently* develop my memory in my
> clarinet playing?
>
> -paolo
>
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