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Re: What is Missing?

Author: Late_returner
Date: 2021-09-14 12:56

I think little is missing in " taming the clarinet" and I agree Michelle Anderson does a very fine job. And in being besotted with kit..always the next thing in the long journey to turn me into Michael Collins.

But i think there is a big hole in simple musicality teaching to go along with the machine aspects. There must be very many late / returning players who did not go through the equivalent of a conservatoire in early life, perhaps never played piano, and came to love the clarinet without much help in understanding how they - not just the composer- can make music work.... their clarinet courses taking them through score after score and giving endless studies concentrating on finger ,breath, articulation problems.

Things like harmonisation, chord structures, developing improvisation from earliest stages , memorising....are often not well covered in the usual clarinet syllabus. The ability to teach musicality must be so much easier by live net than by traditional print, and a specific Musicality for Clarinet Players may appeal ? To want to assemble the clarinet before the music stand ?

If you need to look for an example I suggest sax tuition with its " all 12 keys" approach has something to teach us here, as also the millions of youngsters who learn to play guitar from listening to records.

Good luck

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