Author: chipper
Date: 2006-03-29 15:31
Alex:
A few joys I have are sailing on the edge of an approaching storm front, skating really fast around a short track rink and playing clarinet with our local community band. When I peg a piece and the old timers notice it, I break into a grin like I haven't had since childhood fifty years ago. I have been playing just over two years, never played an instrument before, and it has become the joy of my life (next to my wife, of course, just in case she checks my posts)
I agree with Bob Phillips that you should get a CLARINET teacher. I had a music teacher, but that was because I had absolutly no musical background. When I return to lessons that's what I will be looking for, a clarinet teacher. I practice out of "The Progressing Clarinetist" Halberg/Rossi and refer to our High School band method book, "The Standard of Excellence" Also, if you can find a musical partner and a duet book, great. Do lots of scales, arpeggios and such. Right now I practice the chromatic scale every night. If you are fortunate enough to be allowed to sit with a community band they will provide you with a constant stream of new material and apparently this is quite a privelege as it was pointed out in a previous post. I practice the third clarinet part at home and I tell you it is nearly impossible without the timing of the rest of the band. But I can become proficcient in the riffs throughout the piece and can sometimes put them together with the band.
Bottom line, Alex, don't pass this opportunity to have fun. You're a young pup. I thought life was over at 30, but these days 50 is the new 30. You have much more time to develope your proficency than those of us who took up the instrument later (much later in some cases). The world is your oyster, embrace it.
Carl
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