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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2003-05-22 17:50
I am interested in learning to play jazz (dixieland, Pete Fountainy type stuff in particular)... I can technically handle all the jazz stuff (smears, pitch bending, the "tone" (I don't know if there is a technical term for that kind of sound, but I can do it...) all that stuff), but I can't seem to find any decent music. Has any written a technique book with etudes or songs in this style? Or are there any books that anyone knows of that address this style of playing.... If any ones has any books they think are particularly good, please help!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-05-22 18:41
I have an old set of 8 piece Dixie books , four front line, 12 numbers, I believe, by Zep Meissener. They are a great place to start, to find the cl's place in the harmony and to work up your own version of the choruses.
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: allencole
Date: 2003-05-23 05:46
There's not too much available in terms of etudes, although there are a couple of books of Pete Fountain solos which might prove interesting.
One thing that has appeared on the scene recenty is Easy Jazz Conception by Jim Snidero. The pieces are technically easy, and they do a great job of teaching swing feel. All are based on the chord changes of standard songs.
More info at www.jimsnidero.com
Allen Cole
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Author: Vic
Date: 2003-05-23 14:05
There are a couple of Artie Shaw books, also. One of them contains etudes, and the other various exercises. I can't remember where I got them, but it was fairly recently from one of the on-line places. Sheetmusic.com, I think. Any of them will probably have them, and probably Amazon, also.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-05-23 15:48
This topic comes up fairly often. There is no ''how to'' method for improvizational playing. So called jazz methods are merely clones of traditional methods that have been around for centuries. The jazz method books I've seen are inferior to the old standbys.
To play any kind of "jazz", you learn scales, intervals, arpeggios and basic theory - use exercises as fingering training - then you listen, listen, listen to your favorite players (for inspirational purposes) and go on and play what you can and continue to improve over time.
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Author: William
Date: 2003-05-23 16:00
My good friend Chuck Hedges, one of this worlds great jazz clarinetists, advocates listening to recordings and learning to duplicate the jazz solos by ear--no printed transcriptions. Learning the "keyboard" of your clarinet and how to reproduce what your listening experianced mind tells you to is "where it's at" in playing jazz.
Of course, Chuck has done his theoretical homework and can play all the scales and arpeggios "on cue." Additionally, over the course of his long career, he has learned all of the great jazz tunes and never uses music. But, in the beginning, it all started with listening and trying to imitate what he heard.
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Author: bobmester
Date: 2003-05-23 19:13
The second of the two Artie Shaw books is all etudes and very inexpensive at www.jazzbooks.com. Both volumes are worth it.
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Author: Dante
Date: 2003-05-23 19:58
What they said. Jazz is fun.
Here's a question.
How do you make a Dynamic-H Leblanc (P.Fountain model) sound like a classical horn? Lig/reed/MP suggestions would be welcome here. I love the dark tone I get out of the horn, but it's sort of... >_<!! well, racous for classical stuff sometimes. I also need to know why I have to fight the partials in the altissimo register on my horn. (For instance, play the regular left hand altissomo E (3-4 fingering) and it jumps to a high A, same with the D, which goes to a G.. ) It's annoying, and I'm trying to play the Poulenc and the upper regist stuff is on the wrong partial near ever time I play it.
Thanks
-Jen.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-05-24 21:45
Dante - About all I can suggest from my Dyn 2 experience [?same? horn?] is to try many mps, perhaps some may favor the harmonic, 3rd/5th/7th/9th that you wish, all of which may use the same [nearly] fingering!!, and will have a more-classical tonality!. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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