Author: seabreeze
Date: 2022-01-11 00:16
Fortunately, progress in musical performance is seldom an exclusionary "one must do either a or b." One can do a judicious mix of both a and b, whichever is most suitable for the situation and the time. You don't turn off your sense of hearing and natural curiosity when you practice out of the Baermann books. You use Baermann suggestions as a touchstone and reference for your own imagination and creativity. If you can't play the high note passages the first time through Baermann, then play the lower ones and come back later to the high ones when your chops are ready for that. Baermann need not be the only book on your music stand. You can have it side by side with Irish jigs, Gregorian chants. New Orleans jazz and New York Be-Bop if the spirit moves you in those directions. As for having tunes to sight read, Baermann is filled with those, and he even composed piano accompaniments for them. The Baermann books are strongly telelogical. They have a definite end purpose in mind--to train your fingers to be at one with the mechanism of the clarinet and to set your attention, memory and mind to play with ease the music of the Romantic composers and secondarily, the classical era composers who preceded them. If you have other goals in mind, then Baermann cannot be held to any promise to accomplish those goals (such as to be an improvising jazz player or a modern composer).
Post Edited (2022-01-11 03:37)
|
|
The Clarinet BBoard
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
