Klarinet Archive - Posting 000491.txt from 2004/01

From: EClarinet@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Best Etudes/Method for Learning Scales?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:22:57 -0500

In a message dated 1/15/04 4:36:02 PM EST, m.kubit@-----.net writes:

<< What, in your opinion, would be the best method/etude book for an
intermediate adult player who wishes to develop thorough knowledge of the
scales? I am looking for a system that possibly incorporates exercises in
many keys, and might be more enjoyable musically to work through than a
straightforward book of scale exercises (as I find the one I have rather a
drudgery to plod through, especially when I am tired in the evening.) >>

Dear Mike--

Try the Kroepsch 416 Daily Studies. There are 4 volumes, and the first 2 go
through all the keys, and are much more fun than just playing the Baermann 3.
I use them with my high school students, along with the Baermann and the Rose
32. That way they get scales(Baermann), technical etudes(Kroepsch), and
lyrical etudes(Rose) in whichever key we're working on.

If you want something that is more like the Baermann, but slightly different,
the Langenus vol. 3 has scale/arpeggio studies at the beginning of the book
that I use as pre-Baermann.

Elise Curran
Orlando

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