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Author: gallega25
Date: 2004-08-10 16:08
Hi everyone!
I am new to this bb and enjoy reading everyones posts. About a month ago I posted a topic of Beginner Again and got some great feedback and support for breaking out my old clarinet. Well I took the sound advice and she has had a complete overhaul. Now where do I go?
I am in a very small town so will have to do any purchaseing of sheet music or books online. I know quite a few of you are teachers current or retired and would like some recomendations on good books or music to get me back up to par. I will be completely solo at this for now. I will be starting Grad school in January and at that point plan on looking into doing some clarinet classes at the U (if one of the instructors will take me as a hobbyist) or getting some kind of instruction from a student to get back into the seen. I would like to get back on my feet first however.
So i guess I am just hoping for some suggestions. I used to have a fairly good collection of books and sheet music that have been lost over the years and states I have put under my belt. I like pretty much all the genres and just want to play again and get my game back while playing. So I will practice scales for now. Thanks for all yor help and time.
Sandra
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2004-08-10 18:54
Book one and Two of the Bellison method would work just fine...get it from Carl Fisher and also get hold of the Klose Prescott Book two and Three.
David Dow
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Author: BobD
Date: 2004-08-10 21:41
Hi Sandra and good luck. Certainly scales is a great idea but they do get boring. I enjoy playing the selections in Stoltzman's "Aria" book that accompanies his cd to break the monotony. If you can join a Community Band or similar group I think you'd find this invaluable and fun.
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2004-08-10 22:02
416 Progressive Daily Studies by F. Kroepsch
32 Etudes for Clarinet by C. Rose
You can use them all your life and they never get boring, plus each can be purchased for about 10 bucks.
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: SGTClarinet_7
Date: 2004-08-10 23:13
I agree with Bill, but I also think the Stark Arpeggio book, at least for me, is a must have. I recommend that book to any young clarinetist I talk to.
Matthew
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-11 01:23
I would worry too much about scales ... they have very little in the enjoyment factor ... good if you're doing some warm ups before you play pieces ... Bill's suggestions are good - I found Lazarus a good series (from elementary to difficult) but they seem to be out of fashion here (I'm showing my age I guess).
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Author: leonardA
Date: 2004-08-11 04:32
just about any method book with some tuneful exercises. I have Rubank. Some of it is boring, but there are some decent exercises. They help develop independence of each finger and give you practice with different combinations found in real music. I would also check out
sheetmusic plus.com. They have great sheet music of all genres reasonably priced that you can play for fun. Some of them have cd accompanyment.
Leonard
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Author: gallega25
Date: 2004-08-11 21:09
Thank you all so much. That certainly will get me started. Now to see if I can do this again without my neighbors calling the police . lol.
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Author: Gardini
Date: 2004-08-12 19:06
I am a fan of Gustauve Langenus's books, though they are not for everyone. I would never start a child on this stuff, but as a busy, scattered adult, his "old style" discipline is somthing I can use in my life.
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Author: Karel
Date: 2004-08-13 06:52
Hoffmeister's Daily Studies is a pretty good book too.
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2004-08-13 17:30
Mostly because no one else mentioned it, here's a reminder of the "Celebrated Method for the Clarinet" by H. E. Klose. He oughta know, he invented the thing (Boehm Clarinet).
Really, a great number of methods, etude books, and the like are available. As with brands of Clarinets, many players favor one or two over the others... yet, over the years, there are still many in print. My suggestion is to ask the board for comments about editions of a specific method or study book before buying, to be sure the edition you get is not on the bad list of many users.
Buy a copy of Dr. David Pino's book on The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing. Then read it. For less than ten bux, it's a great value.
Van Cott Information Services, a BB sponsor, is the source where I buy such stuff..
Regards,
John
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