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Author: bombus
Date: 2010-01-11 03:22
I've noticed that when I play unclean notes that make me take off fingers on both hands, it is usually because the fingers on my right hand move a tiny bit slower than the left ones. Are there any exercises that can build up my right hand other than just repeating the transitions between notes?
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Author: Clarimeister
Date: 2010-01-11 03:43
Really that's pretty much all you can do. It's getting that muscle memory is how to do it.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-01-11 11:54
I would say that you could try two muscle memory exercises:
1) Slow, deliberate practice of a particular pattern (or tough section of music). The idea is to make your fingers come down more with a "snap" and more than usual force. On the upstroke, make your fingers do an analogous "snap" upward. Do this a few times, then shake it out and try the passage again --- should be smoother, more solid.
2) Also try the Bonade Syncro-staccato exercise. This is ALSO done VERY S-L-O-W-L-Y. This is executing a very short staccato note, in the silence (as your tongue is damping the reed) move your fingers quickly to the next note, then play that note as a short staccato......etc. So it will sound like this:
"Tut,"....(move)........"Tut,"... (move)..."Tut,"...(move).......etc.
You can do any series in this manner such as thirds or interrupted scales. The practical speed limit is probably eighth notes at 100 beats per minute.
............good luck,
.........................Paul Aviles
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Author: mrn
Date: 2010-01-11 18:50
It just takes practice, although it might help to find some "concentrated" material to work on this stuff. Here are some suggestions.
Practicing scales in intervals greater than a 3rd should help with this (e.g., the scales in 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, etc. out of Baermann III or Jettel Klarinettenschule 2). Jettel's got a lot more of this than Baermann does (Jettel's my personal favorite), but it's also more expensive and a little harder to find.
If you have the Klose Method at home, it has a couple of sections with titles something like "Exercises on Low Notes" and "Exercises in All Registers of the Instrument." Those involve a lot of two-handed movements.
Klose also includes "Exercises in Sixths," which ought to be good for this kind of thing, too.
The Rose studies (I'm talking about the "40 Studies," not the "32 Etudes") contain quite a number of etudes that require you to do a lot of two-handed skips. These were originally violin etudes, and quite a few of them seem to have written for the purpose of practicing making smooth transitions between strings. Since violin strings are tuned in fifths, you have to play quite a number of intervals that require movement in both hands. Just looking at the electronic copy I have on my computer (which doesn't contain all of the studies), it looks like studies 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 36, and 37 would be especially helpful to work on.
If, in particular, you want to build up your right hand (or your left), another good book is "Vade Mecum du Clarinettiste" by Jeanjean, which contains special exercises for the left and right hands. The right hand exercise is particularly good for building up strength/endurance in that hand (I found it rather tiring the first time I tried playing it).
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-01-12 00:19
Here's an exercise that might help. Start on your throat tone E and play repeatedly to an octave lower. Do it in quarter notes, then 8ths and then 16th notes. Use a mirror to watch yourself and determine if and what you are doing wrong in your coordination. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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