Author: zhangray4
Date: 2017-10-03 03:10
I am no professional. I am a student. But a few weeks ago I had the chance to have a lesson with Michelle Zukovsky. We didn't really manage time well, so we talked a lot about routines/warmups and tested eachothers instruments. Here's what she wrote for me to use as a practice routine:
1. Monster Warm-up (She promised to email this to me, but I think she forgot, so I'll ask her if she can send it to me)
2. Long tones. To be specific, doing two types of long tones. First type is holding out the note but making crescendos and diminuendos, as symmetric as possible so that the crescendos are about the same length as the diminuendos. The second is starting from the lowest E on the clarinet, playing it as a whole note, and slurring up as many octaves as you can. Goal is to do this as slow as possible, c. beat = 60. Then you move up chromatically, so after doing octave leaps of E, move onto octave leaps of F, F#, G, etc.
3. Baermann Scales and last pages of the 3rd book
4. Baermann thirds of the third book
BREAK (10-15 minutes)
5. Other exercises in Baermann 3 and 4
6. Rose Etudes
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7. Concerti and Sonatas
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8. Orchestra Repetoire
Now this all sounds good if I could practice 3-4 hours a day. But unfortunately I don't so I take some shortcuts. Or I alternate on which ones I do each day (e.g. Baermann scales one day and thirds the next)
Hope this helps. Just wanted to share what I learned from Ms. Zukovsky
-- Ray Zhang
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