Klarinet Archive - Posting 000362.txt from 2003/11

From: Will Shattuck <wshattuck@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Flats, Sharps and ligatures!
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:30:48 -0500

arlyss1@-----.net wrote:

>I would add to your teacher's superb suggestion two things:
>
>1. Write out simple tunes in those most difficult keys for you to read. (IIR the rest of your post correctly, you had to write out the scales yourself and that was YOUR idea)
>
Actually that was my instructor's requirement. I think I'm going to
write them out again during Thanksgiving break since I'm going to be
getting my clarinet back then.

>2. Go into the Rose 32 etudes,
>
I also agree with this. This is a great book. Make sure you can play
the selected etude at as slow a speed that you can play it well. Then
once you get it you can speed it up a bit.

>and the Uhl etudes, and, instead of doing what most do and start at the beginning, start with the most difficult keys to read. In the Rose of course, that would be the ones in the very back. Take them ALL very slowly at first -because you are not off the hook for other elements of playing either! I don't have the Uhl studies carved into my memory as well, but the Rose I can tell you has every key in them, and I truly think this will help with your reading and functioning in these keys. Same thing goes with Baermann III - work the most difficult scales FIRST, not the easy ones.
>

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