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 Re: Hitting the right note-playing by ear?
Author: clarnibass 
Date:   2007-05-19 14:34

Clive, to play by ear on your clarinet will take time and the more you are familiar with your clarinet you will get better.

If you can't tell if a melody is going up or down, start with very basic excercise - sing two notes and decide if it went up or down (not on your clarinet). Then you can add more notes, etc.

I would also do interval excercises on the piano. I'm not sure if you already know the names of the notes and the intervals, but here are some excercises for example - Have someone play two notes, one after the other, and you try to "guess" the interval (of they tell you the first note and you "guess" the second). Another option is to play a note, choose an interval (i.e. a second note) and try to sing it. Then check on the piano if you were right. This way you will learn how to recognize intervals.

One very important thing imo in all of these excercise, is to do all the "calculations" in your head. If you are trying to find a note on the clarinet (or any instrument) don't play a lot of notes until you find it on the instrument. Of course this might be impossible in the beginning so when you start you can play or do whatever you need to find the note, but aim to be able to do the "process" in your head. It might very slow at first, but eventually it will become faster, until it is almost like intuition.

Although, the thing that helped me the most to be able to play by ear is simply playing by ear things I heard (on CDs, etc).

Anyway, don't lose hope. I was always about average in my class in ear training, and for the first ten years that I played clarinet I almsot only played written music (occasionally playing in kids jazz group without really knowing what I was doing most of the time) and now almost all my music and what I play is improvisation that relies on people to react to each other by listening.
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