Author: sfalexi
Date: 2012-08-26 01:43
Not a teacher, but here's stuff that I like to read through....
For fun, sightread things for different instruments. Trumpet books will work your articulation like you wouldn't believe! Violin stuff....man. I haven't tried it, and I'm scared to....but I bet it'd make a whole lot better at sightreading
Actually, there's a book called "Classical Studies" which is violin and cello partitas and sonatas transcribed for clarinet and I DO read through that. 2 - 4 sharps most of the time, good rhythms, difficult, and I KNOW this book is one of the reasons I can sightread better now after working through it slowly.
And Amsted Duets are really fun and work within the range of any two instruments in the same key (and for some reason, he loves those diminished sevenths arpeggios)
Also, the "BOP DUETS" for some fun rhythms. You can take them at virtually any speed and it sounds pretty cool.
Have you ever turned music upside down and tried to read it? Or read through the music backwards? (starting at the bottom right and reading left and up)?
Another fun thing my friends and I have done were to read standard duets. When you get comfortable with that, read the duet, but change parts every measure. (For example. start on clarinet 1 line, measure 2 read the clarinet 2 line, measure 3 back to 1, etc......good luck when you have to change to the next system)
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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