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Re: Playing Shows

Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2004-06-05 23:13

Whatever you do, don't give up on the clarinet playing. Virtually every show worth the time to play uses both clarinet and either alto or tenor. Doing this double right is essential for a pit performer on reeds.

As time goes on, you'll learn where you fit in the scheme of typical show orchestrations. When musical time rolls around, you can know which book to look for before the decisions are made.

Once you get tenor sax (which you seem to have in hand) and clarinet down, then you can open yourself up to bass clarinet (a little hard to manage at first, but it will come) and the other "main saxes" (alto and baritone). These five horns will cover most of the Reed Book II through Book V parts that there are out there. It's just that simple.

Have fun with the Everything's Comin' Up Roses parts on clarinet...

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