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Author: camyllacarvalho
Date: 2012-11-21 00:16
I'm on first year on college and I feel that I need to improve on technique. What exercises or books can you recomend me (I already have Baermann's book 3)
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-11-21 00:35
Are you a music major? If not, are you studying with a teacher at your college?
Karl
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Author: camyllacarvalho
Date: 2012-11-21 00:56
Well I studie in Brazil and here doesnt have major and minor.But I think that could be the same as a major.
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Author: Ron Scholer
Date: 2012-11-21 01:22
Well your best friend will be the metronome. In my opinion your enemy is trying to play fast or even on the faster side, before you can play well on the slower side.
At a music high school in Michigan the instructor, now very famous, started me off playing whole notes at 72. then work up to 1/4 notes at the same spead and finally 1/8 th notes at 72 and start with a c major scale. Once your fingers and your brain feel very confident move up a click or 2. Once you can play cleanly 3 or 4 times go up a click or 2 on the metronome. After a few days you should be around the 148 to 152 clicks. Always start slowly each day.
Always start your practice the same as above, but after a few weeks add 16th notes at about 58 or so on the metronome. Work your way up to about 142 or faster.
Now start off slow again but slur 2 and tongue 2, 16th notes at 58 or even slower. before moving faster, be able to play the c scale cleanly maybe 4 times without a mistake. Then try tonguing the complete scale. Moving the metronome up a few clicks at a time.
Each week add 1 or 2 new scales, doing the above. If you wish you can add triplets. Work your way up to 4 sharps and 4 flats.
Yes I totally agree. This will take months. Actually I still do these 1 to 2 hours a day, then I play "Stuff," I like. It's kind of what do I feel like doing today, regarding the amount of time I have free and if I'm totally into working on something besides scales.
Is this needed? Well for me it did 2 things. I can articulate without issues and my sound quality is very good. Added to this you build brain power, coordination between your brain and your fingures. Articulating 16th notes at 128 and up will surely make playing hard pieces easier. Symphonies, such as the Italian, 3rd movement of Beethovens 9th, Dances, Pine of Rome, many others, which you may need to transpose from Bb to the C clarinet. I think Beethovens 9th is transposed to a C clarinet, is it C#; the key signature? Haven't played it in many years. You will be thankful when doing the standard concerto's to the pretty hard ones starting with the Neilson Concerto. Some are harder, and will continue to get harder with more and more concertos being wrtting all of the time.
You really asked a fantastic question. Do your homework and you be a very fine player.
You also have to focus on playing 3rds, such as C, E, G, C. At least up to 4 sharps and flats, major scales. Then start adding the 3 minor scales.
Technique is work, sorry to say. Give yourself time. Actually it's timeless.
My promise to you is make a recording tomorrow playing fast. Check your advancement in 6 months then a year. Your sound will be much better, your technique should be good enough to tackle the harder sym. parts. Hope this helps. Work hard with your instructor, he/she will guide you well and the upper registers of the clarinet will feel wonderful. High C, considered by most the highest note on the clarinet. Not bragging here, but when learning excellent technique habits you will have fun going higher. I can hit the G above the high C. Although I can hit these higher notes the neighborhood dogs attack me. Well there's no end to mastering the clarinet! When the dogs bark I need some work on my sound.
Happy Thanksgiving all. Be safe! Feel free with inviting me over to help eat the desserts. I fly everywhere.
BA, MA, MSE, MST
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Author: camyllacarvalho
Date: 2012-11-21 02:01
Ron thank you for your advices.
It will help me a lot, I will start this tomorrow morning.
If we celebrated on Brazil thanksgiving you would be invited to eat the deserves but I wish for all clarinetists a happy thanksgiving
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