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Author: DougR
Date: 2005-02-10 13:29
Hi all--
I'm having fun trying to play jazz on my bass clarinet. What I WISH I had was a book that simply has all the scales and arpeggios--major, minor, augs, dim, half-dim, dom7, extensions--WRITTEN FOR CLARINET, sort of like the Joe Viola Berklee books for sax, but written to include the clarinet's chalumeau register.
I've got a nice old out-of-print Buddy DeFranco book that includes some of the above scales but not all; and an old book by Fred Lipsius that's actually quite good in theory but limited in terms of note range. It probably would profit me to use the Lipsius Viola books and interpolate the lower register, but I'd rather have something on the printed page.
Anybody know of anything like that?
Alternatively, any workbooks to recommend that you jazz players USE on a daily basis to keep theoretical and technical chops sharp?
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Author: Marnix van den Berg
Date: 2005-02-10 13:48
I myself, while not a jazz player, a book called 'Tagliche Studien' (daily studies) by Friedrich Hoffmeister Musikverlag, basically excerpts from Baermann's daily studies. It contains everything you wanted, plus scales in terzes, quarts, quints, sexts, septs and octaves in all modes.
But frankly I don't use it, my teacher teaches me to do it all from memory, which is both easier and harder at the same time, for some reason.
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Author: allencole
Date: 2005-02-10 16:36
Whoever comes up with such a book will sell a lot of copies, but the greater benefit is in constructing those scales and arpeggios for yourself, working on one type at a time and transposing into all keys. And you can do that, or course taking your boilerplates from any Jamey Aebersold book, or from your own theory knowledge.
It might be a good way to go, in that it would force you to work on one thing at a time, and become more intimate with each.
Most of those woodshedding books work better with someone who has already gone through this process.
One book that would work well with clarinet is the B-flat version of the Charlie Parker Omnibook. It is a book of solos, rather than of exercises, but the transcriptions take you into the chalemeau register--in some cases probably down to an E-flat.
Eddie Daniels also has a book of his own transcriptions out, which includes a demo CD. The highlight is probably his breathtaking version of the Solfegietto.
Not exactly what you asked for, but some good practice material.
Allen Cole
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-02-10 20:03
My OLD [1933] well-worn, H.Klose and prob. my Lazarus, if I can find it, has a lot of exercises in many "odd" keys in the chalemeau, or just read down an octave [2 on bass !] for fun and education. Jazz it as you see fit/feel, bend the longer notes like a Dixie player, almost to the point of antagonizing the listener. I "doodle" a lot in our comm band warm-up few minutes, trying to recall how I used to {try to] play jazz , more on alto sax than cl tho. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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