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Author: Ben Shaffer
Date: 2017-05-30 03:17
Quick question for the board members.
I'm an Adult Player that started playing the clarinet in school, stopped for years and now am back playing in several church bands.
I'd like to start using a Method book or 2 and have bought several of them off eBay.
The books are intermediate as well as advanced books.
Here they are... which one or 2 would be your first pick?
1. Hal Leonard Intermediate and advanced books
2. James Collis, Modern Course
3. Rubank Intermediate and advanced
4. Clarinet Student by Robert Lowry Intermediate and Advanced Thanks in advance!
I can play all of the Church band pieces, but would just like to go over the Basics
Ben Shaffer
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-05-30 04:20
In general I like the Collis series. But if you want practice with "Basics," I don't think you can go wrong with the two Rubank Advanced volumes. They cover all the keys in rudiments, etudes and duets. They can be dry for young students but for a self-motivated adult they're useful.
You could also look up the Kroepsch etudes, which give you lots of technical material from C major all the way up to F# and Gb major. Another that isn't on your list but that you might enjoy playing from is Baermann Book III.
Karl
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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2017-05-30 06:21
I second what KDK suggested. The Rubank books (Intermediate and the two Advanced Books) They are also very reasonably priced. Later on you could also move onto the Rubank book Selected Studies for Clarinet which takes you right up to the 6 sharp and flat key signatures in both Major and Minor keys. And these are reasonably priced also.
Skyfacer
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Author: ChrisClarinet
Date: 2017-05-30 09:50
Hi Ben,
Searching for etude in the top right search box gets a few links on this site, following the beginner link and clicking on study gets:
http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/index.html
which seems to have a lot of good info,
regards,
Chris
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2017-05-30 18:57
As a general comment rather than an answer, it seems that preferences in methods have changed, at least in my area (Vermont US). In 1964 when I started private lessons at age 12, local teachers were using the Langenus method, and my teacher took me through that. I'd inherited a copy of the Lazarus method and part of the Klose method, so those supplemented my lessons. There were similarities between the three, but also differences; I'd probably rate the Langenus as the best of them overall for study, but Lazarus was the most fun.
Anyway, after leaving the clarinet and then returning years later, I find that those methods apparently are not used in my area. Neither is Baermann, nor the Kroepsch studies. The Rubank volumes are used by local teachers. The goals have shifted for serious students as well; now there is more emphasis on jazz and improvising, other genres besides classical, and instrument doubling, compared to when I was in school.
Now I still practice and play for fun from Lazarus and Langenus. I sometimes turn to the Kroepsch studies, the Jettel scale book, and Opperman studies.
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Author: NetG
Date: 2017-05-30 23:47
I like the Langenus books, volumes 1,2 and the book 3 virtuoso studies. One book I have been using lately is "Pares Scales" for Clarinet, by Gabriel Pares. This book really gives me a good workout.
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Author: SarahC
Date: 2017-06-04 01:04
Rubank is excellent for what you are saying you wanted to
The fingering chart in rubbing isn't the best. but the one on this website here is absolutely super!
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Author: jthole
Date: 2017-06-04 13:36
For basic technique and articulation, I like the Demnitz "Klarinettenstudien" as well. However, I do not know if that book is popular in the USA (I live close to Germany).
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Author: RKing
Date: 2017-06-04 17:02
I used the Rubank books in high school, then when I returned to playing a decade ago, my new instructor was still using the Rubank series.
Today's kids probably want a little more "snap, crackle, and pop" in their method books, but for a serious adult they are hard to beat.
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-06-04 19:05
RKing wrote:
> Today's kids probably want a little more "snap, crackle, and
> pop" in their method books, but for a serious adult they are
> hard to beat.
>
I'm not sure today's kids "want" a method book at all with or without "snap, crackle and pop." They're much more involved in their ensemble parts and their competitive solo pieces and all the other music they're responsible for preparing in a school environment that, here in the U.S. at any rate, places more and more emphasis on competitions, adjudication festivals and placement in county and state and selective ensemble programs.
Karl
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2017-06-04 21:19
Interesting point, Karl. One might point out that ensemble parts, solo pieces, festivals, and contests all are and have long been about playing music, and so from that perspective learning from methods may be less efficient than just playing the music.
However (and I suspect this is what you allude to), there's evidently a purely competitive aspect that can distort and narrow the learning process, leading to students who are musically less complete somehow, regardless of placements and competitive successes over students trained by method.
I suspect the relative benefits depend largely on the individual. I've read of successful musicians whose training and practice routines differed all over the spectrum between the poles of a) methodical diligence & steady progress and b) tackling the most advanced and even inappropriate music almost from the beginning. These differences also seem to appear in other disciplines.
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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2017-06-08 00:54
The real advantage of the Rubank books besides their very reasonable price is that they are readily available in many music shops that also stock sheet music for wind instruments
Skyfacer
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