Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-07-30 20:22
For serious students, intent on doing the hard work necessary to perform music of any degree of difficulty, there are a few books that get the job done better than most. Klose is good but very unsystematic. A far more systematic approach is Eugene Gay's two volume "Methode de Progressive and Complete." Scales, scales in intervals, and arpeggios are introduced in that method in a very methodical way, interspersed with musical examples from a rage of classical composers. The book is very expensive, but you get the theory and the application of each idea laid out and illustrated to train your fingers and your ears, and it is great preparation for the Baermann Method book 3 scale book.
Even the E. Gay method, though, doesn't teach enough rhythmic subdivision. For that, get the Pasquale Bona "Rhythmical Articulation" edition for treble clef. You will also have to learn to count and play mixed meter--something virtually absent (except for the Jeanjean 20) from most of the classical methods and etude books. A solid start in mixed meter is James Meyer's "30 Changing Meter Duets" (Trigram Music). You never really know if you've got the mixed meter right until you play something in it with at least one other performer playing his/her own separate part, and the Meyer duet book gives you the confidence you need to get it right.
The Baermann Method, vol 3, is still the most accessible and relatively thorough guide to basic scale, interval, and arpeggio technique for the clarinet. David Hite's edition is particularly helpful (Foundation Studies, Baermann Book 3, Op. 63).
Kal Opperman's "Modern Daily Studies for the Clarinet, Book One--18 Studies and 3 Etudes" gives you great practice in little finger combinations, left hand throat tone fingering, and register changing. Some of the studies--#17 and #18, for example--make you read double sharps and double flats to increase your sight reading. A great book to get used to even the most extreme double flats and double sharps in quick succession is Joe Viola's Chord book for alto sax (Berklee). If you train you eyes and fingers to play these, you will approach the accidentals in Richard Strauss with much less surprise and trepidation.
Post Edited (2017-07-31 00:16)
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