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Author: C. Hogue
Date: 2003-07-28 20:02
The longstanding advice you experienced BB members give paid off for me. Thank you.
Starting in late 2001, I lived in one cold apartment then a warmer one, wondering when my divorce would ever get finished so I could get back to my community band. I’d ordered Klose and Baermann. And because you explained *why* scale and intervals were important (all music is based on them!) and laid out the sort of discipline needed to play well, I lumbered through so many exercises.
I did get a little better.
But then I put aside my clarinets for about 6 months. I eventually moved back to my neighborhood. And in June, my CB conductor asked me to bring my alto to rehearsal.
So I was sight-reading all the music my band had been working on for months. I looked at the key signatures and fingered the scales and arpeggios before each piece.
The conductor knew there was a clarinet choir embedded in one musicial selection – and that something had been missing. She asked the bass clarinets, the Bbs, and me to play that section together.
What a sound we made.
I missed one note, but only the first time through. My scales exercises paid off, even though it had been months since I'd done them.
The band applauded for us when we finished. I was overwhelmed by how many people noticed the harmony the alto added.
It’s good to be back.
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2003-07-28 20:21
We try really hard to weasle out of the scales, but the work pays off big time if we just sit down and do them. Congratulations!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-07-28 20:30
There's nothing like a SUCCESS Story to spread happiness!! What a VOTE for our AltoClar contingent. It DOES play a "part", partic. in choir music, where much of it derives from orchestral viola parts , which if absent are sorely missed. I try to fill in the missing alto "bits and pieces" on bass, in "M,N,and Noon in Vienna"!! Welcome back, C H ! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-28 21:34
Good for you "C".....there's nothing like playing with others.....
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-07-28 22:15
Congratulations...Seems like another Baermann success story.
For you non-believers, it's time once again to resurrect my (now famous) Baermann quote:
"...Get a copy of Baermann III. Put it on your music stand and never remove it.
Make a habit of playing in it every day, forever.
After 6 months, you will see why..." GBK
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Author: msroboto
Date: 2003-07-29 04:42
I just started going through Baermann and not even that seriously. Just playing my scales and adding a couple of sections from Baermann to that and after just a few days I can already see the difference.
Went to band tonight and some of the stuff that has been driving me nuts was sort of there. Now sort of there still isn't great but NOT there is worse.
I'll keep at it and report back at some point. I still have a long way to go.
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