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Author: derf5585
Date: 2014-11-01 19:59
I found this websight
Learn sax fast
I wonder if it would work for clarinet also
http://www.saxophonemadesimple.com/gmain.php?ga_campaign=Sax-ReMarketing2&ga_adgroup=Level+2+-+Visited+SalesPage+image+ads&ga;_keyword=%7Bkeyword%7D&ga_ad_content=Goosebumps-300x250&gl=1580493&gl_keyword=&gl_mt=
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Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2014-11-01 20:53
This method might be very good, but it appears there is still some hard work involved. If someone has the patience to practice and learn all the concepts it might work, but for those hoping for quick shortcuts, I suspect this method won't do it.
I'm reminded of a series of books that were once available for a number of different instruments, the E-Z Method. These books claimed to make the process of learning a musical instrument easy. For an extremely motivated adult with some prior background, the E-Z Method might have been good, but for everyone else, it was probably confusing.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-11-01 23:55
I've seen loads of those E-Z books and other methods promising things such as, "Learn to Play in Five Easy Lessons!" for sale at flea markets, yard sales and used book stores. I've seen quite a few such books stuffed into the cases with instruments, too, especially saxophones. (Vintage clarinet cases typically don't leave lots of room for literature, but there's plenty of empty space in sax cases from the 1920s and 1930s when those "five easy lessons" books got published in large numbers.) Ads in old magazines suggest buying one of those books as a gift to present with a new instrument.
I've noticed that the "easy" books are often in perfect condition. (I'm tempted to write that they're *usually* in perfect condition, with no scribbling in them, but I can't be certain because I haven't kept a numerical log.) When I find a "five easy lessons" book in a case with an instrument, often the instrument looks unplayed, too (pads not grooved in on saxophones, for instance, and complete lack of plate-wear on the underside of the thumb rest or bite-marks on the beak), even if pad bugs and other critters have gotten in there and done their dirty work over the years.
I don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to make the obvious connection between the condition of the literature and the condition of the instrument: The previous owner probably *didn't* learn to play. Maybe the instrument was a gift to someone who didn't practice because s/he was never really interested, but my perusal of the books makes me think it would have taken five easy lessons for me to get nowhere with them. They're just not realistic. I think people are more likely to learn when encouraged to think that anything worth doing is worthy of effort -- and that effort, itself, is rewarding and enjoyable.
Lelia
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-11-02 00:34
It's an interesting question, just exactly how do some folks pick up the instrument so much faster than others, you know, your prodigies such as Benny Goodman (playing in top bands of his day at 13) or Andreas Ottensamer (making the Berlin Phiharmonic within six years of picking up his first clarinet)?
If you're asking ME, I'd say S-L-O-W is fast. That is, practicing note to note PERFECT with PERFECT rhythm. This means whatever you practice, you practice slow enough to be absolutely perfect every time. Moving to a quicker tempo then only becomes a 'shift up.' If you play a passage that has baubles in it, you are only reinforcing something WRONG.
If you practice correctly, all the evidence points to the possibility to be professional quality within five to six years (which is REALLY fast). Of course you'd need to put in two or three hours per day with no days off.
..............Paul Aviles
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