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Author: kfrank1
Date: 2005-11-10 19:05
Is anyone familiar with these technical studies? I would like to know how you would classify them. Are they fingering exercises which are repetitive and mechanical, or could they be thought of as being melodic exercises.
These are the velocity studies, master studies, and contemporary chordal sequences.
Thanks
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-11-10 21:40
The Opperman studies range from difficult to extremely difficult, particularly Intervalic Permutations, which looks like standard arpeggio studies but has various notes altered. It's sequences you've never played before, and you feel like a beginner again.
These are not melodic and are not designed as etudes. You get almost nothing from just playing through them. Rather, you have to take each measure and drill it into your fingers the way you do the Baermann III patterns.
Kal told me that Harold Wright loved them, saying it gave him something different and really difficult to work on.
Ken Shaw
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-11-10 22:19
The first 2 volumes of the Opperman Modern Daily Studies give your technique a nice workout, but Book 3 (Intervallic Permutations) will have you talking to yourself.
Book 3 consists of many arpeggiated patterns which, for the most part, you have never encountered before and your fingers (and ear) do not want to accept.
They are truly a test of ones concentration and finger discipline. Done in very small doses they keep both you fingers and mind limber.
Just in case you master the patterns, Opperman gives 12 different articulation ideas to further frustrate you ...GBK
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Author: kfrank1
Date: 2005-11-11 20:30
Thanks for the info. Someone who takes lessons from Kal recommended these for 'finger busting' exercises for clarinet. It sounds like it is all of that.
BTW, the exercises I mentioned above are his most recent ones published just a few years ago (around 2000 I think)
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-11-11 20:46
His Fingering book is really good too and not a duplicate of Tom Ridenour's either.
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