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Author: eduardo94
Date: 2015-12-24 01:05
I just heard Mr. Benda and alot of others famous clarinetists/teachers do a kind of "new begin " in their technique every year, soon after their vacations.
I would like to do this in some weeks.
Do you do that? In your opinion what are the best exercicies to do it? I thinking about Klose, starting with breathing and use Klose studies to fingering and later articulation.
What do you suggest?
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-12-24 03:43
Begin with long tones. Then play slow scales, straight and in thirds, major and minor around the circle of fifths. Klose puts this into a 2-page exercise, which he says he considers to be "one of the most important."
Then play a slow, beautiful song. (Ralph McLane was said to use the Brahms Lullaby when trying out a new reed.)
Take a simple tune (say, Three Blind Mice). Play it in C, then C#, then D and so on. It gets surprisingly difficult in the extreme keys.
Whatever you do, make beautiful music first, even out of a scale. William Kincaid would have a student play a difficult solo on a single note, making music without moving a finger.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-12-24 04:21
Interesting idea "the Kincaid single note" thing. I like it !!!!!
..............Paul Aviles
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2015-12-25 07:16
I can only imagine that a new beginning means a reset, and then a good rethinking.
Take a couple days off. Don't think about playing. Do something unrelated.
Then later give it some good thought. Think about you, your playing, your strengths, weaknesses. Think of why you play, how it fits into your life. Think about how you sound, and how you want to sound, what you do, what you want to do. Pick the main areas where you want to change / improve. Maybe they're technical; maybe they're aesthetic. Maybe it's logistics - when and where. Think of areas where you want to maintain, too. Think of some goals and possible time frames.
Then devise a program to systematically achieve what you want. This may take a little effort, but it will probably be fairly straightforward to do this. It may involve big changes in your routine, almost everything. It may just be one or two things. Maybe you'll decide to pretty much keep what you've been doing before.
Then start doing it. Long enough to have some kind of results to evaluate, a couple weeks at least. Tweak. Keep going.
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