Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-06-07 20:49
Anna -
There are all kinds of things you can do over the summer. The best, I think, will be to find people to make music with. Call up some other good players from your high school, and also the band/orchestra director, players in the local orchestra and church music directors in the area to get suggestions.
Then play together, or at retirement homes, invited audiences in your living room, churches, malls, street corners and everywhere else they'll have you. The more performance experience you get, the better.
There are also things you can do alone. For example, take an etude book and learn to transpose, up a step for C parts and down a half step for A parts. You'll certainly have transposing as a subject in college studies, and a head-start will be a great benefit. If you can borrow an Eb clarinet or a bass clarinet for the summer, work on learning to play those.
And, of course, you should spend the best 10 minutes of every day working as hard as you can on the Baermann III exercises. If you can come into college able to play scales in all the keys, you'll be miles ahead of everyone else.
Ken Shaw
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