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Re: Clarinet Method Book Suggestions

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-01-20 19:29

Yeah, ya know that is excellent advice. I spent years treating orchestral excerpts like Venetian glass, just waiting for the day I was ready for them.

Bill Wrzesien of the New England Conservatory made a point of excerpts being part of your daily routine. His system was to have students compile a collection of the top required excerpts and sort them all by speed, and articulation (fast/slow, staccato/legato). Then you take an equal number of the different categories and put them into four packets. Each day you pull one packet and run through that packet's group of excerpts.

That's one way of organizing and making sure you keep them under your fingers. If orchestral auditions are in your future.......that is a MUST!

Oh, and I have to add another idea that was revelatory for me. A more recent professor/performer (forgot name) has suggested that while in school (conservatory or equivalent) you get a group of your buddies together to perform excerpts in an ensemble setting. It is much easier to appreciate what is going on musically and dynamically when you can hear things more in context. And, your flute playing, oboe playing, string playing friends often share the same moments in the same pieces.

................Paul Aviles

Post Edited (2019-01-20 19:34)

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