Klarinet Archive - Posting 000356.txt from 2002/09

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] sightreading blues
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:41:12 -0400

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From: "Anne Lenoir" <AnneLenoir@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] sightreading blues

> Dear Jeremy,
> I wonder how your scales are going? It has been my experience that
> many of my students' sight-reading improves significantly after they can
> play their scales for 2 octaves up-&-down, for memory up to 3 #'s and 3
> b's. ANNIE
>

Another major help after mastering the scales, is mastering the main
arpeggios (both standard and inversions of the chords) in each scale.

These patterns (scales and arpeggios) occur over and over in music
compositions.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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