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Author: Angelsfort
Date: 2018-04-30 16:27
Hello everyone!!
first time poster but I've been lurking for a while!
Was just hoping to get some advice... I played clarinet in middle and High school (was pretty good, generally held 2nd or 3rd chair at all times... had no motivation to move higher because my best friend sat next to me and I didn't want to leave her! LOL)
I have picked it up every now and then and played a few notes just messing around - and when my daughter joined band (Trumpet) I started playing her music with her but found that I couldn't remember some of the fingerings for the higher notes.
My question is this: can you suggest some books that will help me to relearn the fingerings? And test my knowledge?
She's joined a local jazz band after school (community band) and the leader said that she'd love to have a clarinetist join as well (the band is mostly brass at the moment with a couple of saxes thrown in...) and she's been asking often... trying to convince me to join. I'd love to join! But right now, I'm not confident enough in my fingerings and I don't want to embarrass myself, especially in front of my daughter!! LOL (she's a VERY good trumpet player and has heard me brag often about how good I used to play my clarinet!!)
any advice? I'd appreciate it!!
--Dianna--
Beauty is only skin deep. But ah! me! Freckles go to the bone!! - Mark Twain
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-04-30 17:12
If you're only looking for a way to re-learn fingerings, the most direct way would be to download a fingering chart and keep it on the music stand while you read whatever music you want to play.
If that doesn't feel satisfying, find out what band method book the teachers at your daughter's school use, buy at least Book 2 and maybe Book 3 of the series and play through the material. More structured than the random approach with a chart, and each page that introduces a new fingering will have a diagram and maybe even a photo of the fingering. You'll get a mix of exercises and public domain tunes to play as you like.
You could, of course, get one of the standard clarinet-specific methods - Klose, Langenus, Baermann, Rubank, Alfred Learn-To-Play, Collis, Galper. They all provide basically the same kind of approach with different layout features and sequencing of skills. You probably don't need to go that deeply if your general music skills are still intact and you just want a fingering review.
Karl
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Author: Speculator Sam
Date: 2018-04-30 17:14
Being a beginner/intermediate myself, there are two books I could recommend. Accent on Achievement has a finger chart in the back of books 1 and 2. If that book makes you feel a little "kiddish", then Rubank Elementary Method is also easy to follow and features a finger-chart. Hope this helps.
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-04-30 20:48
It really depends on how much work you need to review basic music skills like keeping a basic pulse, articulation, note durations (rhythm), etc.. Most of the method books assume you're learning to perform music for the first time and move through these things fairly slowly while they introduce fingerings and techniques, which can spread your attention as a re-learner pretty widely over areas you might not need.
I have a student currently whose mom was my student when she was in high school 20 years ago. She (the mom) is now rebuilding with nothing much more than the music from a community band she recently joined and a lesson with me at the beginning of each run of rehearsals on a new program. She just sent me a very credible, if slightly under tempo (maybe not for her band), video of her practicing her part for Candide Overture, a part she couldn't have played a couple of months ago. Assuming you were reasonably secure on the clarinet 30 years ago, you shouldn't have much trouble working back into the mechanics of playing without a lot of formal structure.
Karl
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-04-30 20:50
Accent On Achievement is certainly one of several current band methods that do a good job of sequencing and developing playing skills.
Karl
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Author: 3dog
Date: 2018-05-18 04:06
I am at the same place but I do play tenor in several bands and had played clari in the past. I purchase a new clarinet with plateau keys and I use iphone apps (TE Tuner, Register, Clarinet and Clarinet+) Some of it comes back as I do play sax but the low register is another register. Play a carbon fiber reed on the sax and will do the same on the clarinet. Watch a lot of youtube videos and I am learning stuff that my former teachers never mention. Example: how to properly tune the instrument
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