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Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-01-19 19:43
From your personal experience -
what are the easy things about learning and playing the clarinet....
what is difficult...
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Author: Bb R13 greenline
Date: 2012-01-19 19:51
Tounging, playing high, octaves and glissandos=hard Fingering, playing loud, overtones, scales=easy
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2012-01-19 22:37
Actually, for beginners I would put overtones in the hard category due to learning different note names for the different registers. I usually get out an Irish whistle when introducing the clarion register to show students how the overtones series sounds on the other woodwinds. It is a more "natural" introduction to how air column and pitch are related when blowing through a tube.
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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2012-01-20 02:04
For beginners:
Easy--blowing an open G, 2nd space A and Ab, and 3rd line Bb.
Hard--keeping the RH fingers adequately covering the tone holes when moving from one note to the next.
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Author: luca1
Date: 2012-01-20 05:05
easy = to make a sound
difficult = to make a nice sound
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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2012-01-20 05:18
I always remember learning to play across the break being the toughest part of my clarinet education. Probably wouldn't have been as difficult if I had a private teacher to stress proper finger technique as I developed a really bad case of "fly away fingers" that took me a long time to correct.
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Author: Mikeskuse
Date: 2012-01-20 18:20
Easy......B flat
Difficult.............B Natural (and anything above that!)
Very difficult............going from one to the other.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2012-01-21 01:03
For each child, teenager, and adult: what's easy or difficult is unique to each. Being an effective teacher is identifying what each individual's strengths and weaknesses are and helping their weakness becomes their strength.
You'll obviously pull from your own experiences in teaching everyone in your studio -- and in the beginning that will help some and hinder others. Over time, trial and error (and research hopefully!), you'll develop a repertoire of tools that helps you evaluate and explain the concepts you need to teach.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2012-01-23 04:09
Learning to play pretty well anything in the lower register wasn't too hard, but learning to play fluidly across the break was difficult. Reed control in the high register took a while.
Tony F.
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Author: C.Elizabeth07
Date: 2012-01-23 05:10
I don't actually believe that anything is "hard" just unfamiliar and the more familiar we become with things the easier they become.
But for me personally, easiest: producing a good sound, technical passages
most challenging: rapid articulation, watching my left hand motion, fighting with my double jointed pinkies!
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Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-01-23 12:55
Thanks everyone - this question was asked of me of a 77 year old man who is considering taking up the clarinet.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2012-01-23 14:24
> Thanks everyone - this question was asked of me of a 77 year
> old man who is considering taking up the clarinet.
I'd say "go for it".
There are no difficulties, just minor or major challenges.
There are few things more rewarding than learning to tackle something new.
--
Ben
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2012-01-24 16:00
For me, decades after picking up my first clarinet the hardest thing should be the simplest --remembering that it is a wind instrument and that you have to blow it to make it sound.
Support, forming the airstream, getting the tongue positioned correctly...
Bob Phillips
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