Author: David Niethamer
Date: 2010-06-03 03:01
Rubank Advanced Method and the Pares Scales are very similar. Either are fine as an introduction to scales. Then I'd proceed to J.B. Albert "24 Varied Scales and Exercises". As Ed P pointed out, you can find them in Lazarus Part 2, which has a lot of other good material - Kroepsch V. 1, and 24 Opera duets by Lazarus which are fun to play. Also some Mueller etudes - kind of "pre-Rose".
Albert is Baermann III with training wheels - no extended ranges. Robert Schmidt made a series of metronome games for use with Albert in his "A Clarinetist's Notebook, V. 2", which may still be available from Hickey's Music in Ithaca. Scroll down in the link below.
http://www.hickeys.com/cgi/display.cgi?cart_id=&page=bkbicl.htm
I use Bob's metronome games with my students playing from Lazarus.
My favorite Baermann III is edited by David Hite, published by Southern Music. It's organized by key, not by exercise, which I find more useful. It also has some added exercises which are a real challenge.
For even more fun with scales, Find Mazzeo's article about scale practice in the old Selmer Bandwagon. It may also be contained in Mazzeo's book "The Clarinet: Excellence and Artistry". I found copies on Amazon and also on the same Hickey's web page. Some of the other scale studies include the Eugene Gay Method, Jettel "Klarinettenschule", the Slonimsky "Thesaurus of Scales", and my personal practice favorite, Gaston Hamelin's "Gammes et Exercises."
Just for the record - not associated with Hickey's, though a long time ago I used to spend a lot of money there!!
David
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