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Re: Danny Boy

Author: BethGraham
Date: 2019-04-26 17:02

Don't worry about mistyping my name. I've had worse done to me.

Michelle Anderson of Clarinet Mentors talks about the importance of learning scales in order to program note patterns into what she calls the "lizard brain," the automatic, non-thinking part of the brain. (Her YouTube videos might be a good resource for you, if you're not familiar with them.)

Most scale books also include arpeggios and other patterns for each key. Baermann is the book I've heard most serious musicians talk about using, but like I said, I picked up a copy of Avrahm Galper's Scales and Arpeggios to work with. (That said, I'm not doing much with it yet, since I'm still a beginner.)

If I were you, I don't think I'd use a fingering chart to practice scales. It's important to start forming a connection between the notes on a page of music (those patterns I talked about) and what your fingers are doing. That's where there's great value in an actual scale book.

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