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Author: SVClarinet09
Date: 2006-01-20 21:12
What exercises in the H. Klose Celebrated Method of Clarinet do you guys reccomend? I'm currently working on the 68 Exercises of Mechanism.
Oh one thing I forgot earlier....How exactly would you play a half-staccato?
Post Edited (2006-01-20 21:16)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-01-20 21:41
SVClarinet09 wrote:
> What exercises in the H. Klose Celebrated Method of
> Clarinet do you guys reccomend?
It depends on your current ability level and/or if you are trying to focus strengthening one particular playing skill.
All my better students complete the entire Klose (Part 1 and Part 2) before they graduate high school.
Some finish it sooner than others...GBK
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Author: SVClarinet09
Date: 2006-01-20 22:27
what i really need to improve on is rhythm and jumps. i put the ahead from tone and that sort of stuff
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Author: hartt
Date: 2006-01-21 04:09
I would venture to say that you have more to improve on than just rhythm and jumps.
There is musicanship, technique, fingers, slurring, legato, tonguing, etc etc
If you don't get rhythm down 'now', it will haunt your playing for eons to come. If your rhythm is off, so is all of the above.
COUNT.....don't play......don't even hold the clarinet. Just count aloud for whatever the study is...
1234 1234, 123 123, 1&a 1&a, 1&a 1234 1& 123 etc etc.
Then play and count simultaneously. THINK it
if you can't speak it, you can't play it
Jumps ?....even doing a 1/2 step is a jump.
Whatever the interval is....3rd, 4th, 6th, octave, 12th.......are your fingers falling/lifting EXACTLY AS and WHEN they should ?
Do 2 note intervals (up & down) as 2 slurred, then 2 long tongued followed by 2 short tongued, triplets as 3 slurred, then 3 long tongued followed by 3 short tongued......and watch what you're doing with the lower jaw.
metronomemetronemetronomemetronomemetronome
With the above in mind (which is just a start), there are many exercises in the Klose bk that can be used this practice. You can even break down some of the 1/16th note exercises into 1/8 notes
When you think you have an exercise down pat, do it again because you don't.
good luck..............now go practice
dennis
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Author: Tyler
Date: 2006-01-23 21:47
The scale exercise which goes through all keys (page 123 in my big combined book, I think). First, use a metronome and do "evenness" studies with it. Then, turn the metronome off (GASP) and practice phrasing techniques like dynamics and note leading/phrase driving and rubato, etc.
Endless possibilities with this etude.
-Tyler
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