Klarinet Archive - Posting 000915.txt from 2004/07

From: "Thomas" <thomas@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: (hopefully) shorrt introduction
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:09:06 -0400

Hi Rose -
If you are on an intermediate level, and don't have a teacher, I would stay
away from the Rose Etudes for now. They are going to be too difficult,
especially without a teacher. Etudes aren't about playing lots of notes
when you're on the intermediate level.

Try the Melodious and Progressive Studies, Book 1, edited by David Hite,
published by Southern Music. JWPepper.com sells them, so do many music
stores. These are a series of varied etudes by Demnitz, Nocentini,
Baermann & Klose which move through the circle of fifths, and they get
progressively harder.

Some of them seem Very easy at first. Each one has a different aspect of
playing as its' primary focus. Sometimes it's rhythm, sometimes
articulation, etc. etc. I really like the Demnitz ones, out of all of
them, and the Nocentinis are interesting and fun.

My favorite one is Demnitz' G Major. The idea of these simple etudes is for
you to play them smoothly, without glitches in tone, finger glitches, and
also to use dynamics to pull the music out of the melody. I ask my students
to find out how beautifully they can play a G scale. They laugh at me at
first, then find out the whole series is like that ;)

Good luck! And if you don't have a regular teacher, what you might try is
going to the nearest city once a month for a long lesson - it's really hard
to do things without guidance!!!

Lynn

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