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Author: rutherman
Date: 2001-08-06 04:45
What do you do in your lessons? like how long are they? What books do you work in? Do you have a method book or a scale book or an etude book or do you just work on solos? How many solos do you work on each year? and for how long?
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Author: Nick Conner
Date: 2001-08-06 13:19
My lesson is 1 hour long, sometimes every week, sometimes every month (I get busy during the school year). I work scales (gotta get all of them cleaned for college auditions), from the Klose book, all the Rose stuff, and various solos. My lessons I believe are a lot different from most other people's. For the level I'm at playing-wise, I have (or am told I have) an exceptional ear for nuance. So, my teacher is more or less a checkpoint to keep me on the right road. A lot of times I'll go over my work lately and what I plan to do in the next couple weeks. Usually she'll fine tune that by finding a better etude than what I had planned and giving me a new exercise in order to step up various areas of my playing (tonguing, tone quality). Then I work on different areas from various solos. They are all at least group one (the toughest in Indiana). I don't usually completely clean the solo like I would for contest unless it is my contest solo. My goal is to have a fair amount of literature to a point of comfort so that within a month or so prep time, I could work up a concert degree of proficiency. Using this guidline, my teacher and I jump around in the solo's I have, which range from Mozart to Copland to Sphor.
Nick Conner
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Author: Leah
Date: 2001-08-06 13:59
My lessons sound a lot like the above from Nick and Mindy. I have them each week and they last for an hour. I have scale assignments which come out of Hite's Baermann method. I also work on an etude from Rose 32, Rose 40 or Klose each week as well as different exercises in Klose. We definitely do not just do pieces; I get my share in. Maybe 4 in a year? Around that. Mozart of course. I have college auditions as well But my lessons consist of me going over my work that I did the past week and assigning me new exercises. Plus working more on the piece.
Leah
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-08-06 14:34
I'll be a junior next year. My lessons are 45 minutes long (in theory, they're usually about an hour). I'm working out of the Hite edition of the Rose studies and I use the Baermann scale book. I don't actually do scales in my lessons, but I'm supposed to be using this book (I don't like it much but I try to get it out sometimes). I do etudes first and then my current solo or solos. If I have an audition coming up, I just work on the solo. My teacher gives me options for solos to work on and sometimes I suggest something. Sometimes my teacherr works on reeds for me.
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Author: Keil
Date: 2001-08-06 16:34
my lessons were/are an hour i work on Scales from C. Baermann book, Rose 32 Etudes, Jeanjean studies, Kroepsch book, and i was in the P. Bona book but i graduated from that... yay! Also we play duets and work on all kinds of solo literature. I have been fortunate or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it, to always be preparing for some audition so i'm always playing or learning some solo work. I have a fair amount of literature under my belt that can easily be fine tuned. I fine for me that i grow more when i play with clarinetist better than me so my private teacher likes to pull out crazy retarded duets, they're fun but challenging. My lessons are usually once a week unless something comes up.
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Author: William
Date: 2001-08-06 21:01
Voice from the past: My high school lessons were one half hour in length every week on Thursday evenings. My teacher started with scales which I was required to write out in triplets (and play from memory) in major, and the three forms of minor--natural, harmonic and melodic. Basically, they started with C and followed the circle of fifths through all the sharps and flates. Then followed the Rubank Advanced and Lazarus Advanced books. ( I remember during my first few lessons we worked out of two thin books of finger studies--don't recall the name but, at the time, they seemed quite boring.) Then, after the scales and etudes, followed the solo literature--first solo studied was Webers CONCERTINO (which I took to State and received a first on). Other solos studied included the ERWIN FANTASY, RIGOLETTO FANTASY, the Mozart CLARINET CONCERTO, ADAGIO TARTANTELLA, and the Rimsky Korsokov (sp-???) CONCERTO. His name was Benny Ehr (a local legendary private clarinet and saxophone teacher) and I studied with him for three years until I went to college as a (very well prepared) clarinet major in the School of Music. The cost of each lesson: $2.00. Hope I didn't bore you "young's" too much--just thought you would like to hear about the "when I was a kid days" once more before you go back to school. Good clarineting!!!!!!! and have lots of fun!!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2001-08-06 23:35
As a teacher who has many high school private clarinet students, our typical lesson last 1 hour. It is roughly broken into the following pieces: Scales (my choice) of 3 - 5 from memory in various patterns/octaves. An easy sight reading duet - just to warm up. Exercises from varying texts (Klose, Kroepsch, Rose, Cavallini, etc...) The current solo project that the student is working on, a prepared duet, and finally another more difficult sightreading exercise or duet to end the lesson. I firmly believe in playing with the students to demonstate and hear conceptions of tone, articulation, style, that words alone cannot show. I also believe that sight reading is an essential skill which must be developed over time, hence the predominance of it in our lessons...Hope that gives an insight as to what I do. BTW- orchestral excerpts are begun with my seniors as they prepare for college orchestral playing.
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Author: Francesca
Date: 2001-08-07 00:44
Pretty much ditto to everything above. I used to (as of this first week without lessons :( have a 1 hour lesson once a week. Standard stuff included Baerman scales, Rose etude, duet of some form (currently Telemann sonata canons) and sight reading/theory/listen to recordings of other players. I'm working on some orchestral excerpts for my college audition. God help me, I chose "Daphnis and Chloe Second Series" Chock full of 32nd note runs and me without a teacher. Not the best planning on my part! Oh well, I'll survive. Certainly helps me appreciate lessons, though.
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Author: Sara
Date: 2001-08-07 04:42
Hey same here for the most part, you notice rarely anyone has short lessons anymore, mine started being 30 minutes and over the course of almost four years they are now a good hour and 45 minutes long until I say hey, I can't play anymore. But I have so much fun that time just flys by and I think my teacher has just as much fun and I do. He only has a few fulltime students, the rest are seasonal for All state help and stuff. And as far as what I play, wellI did have the whole rubank series but now we're working on stuff from Klose, his daily studies, duets and things like that, and as far as pieces go, I'd say I'm very rounded, he tried to get me to play a lot of things so that when I need to pick out college audition stuff, I only have to fine tune things. Right now I'm doing my all state solo, finishing the Stamitz concerto in Eb and starting either the Copland Concerto or the first Weber concerto.
Sara
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Author: IHL
Date: 2001-08-08 13:24
I have lessons every fortnight for 1 hour. I bring no less than SIX books to lessons, plus a folder full of music for the clarinet choir im in and a notebook. My teacher shows me different tricks (growling, fast tounging etc) to get the most feeling out of my instrument, and a lot of practising pieces from the books. And I'm having a practical exam in a few weeks! eek!
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Author: Robert
Date: 2001-08-09 03:21
Well, I never had lessons in HS... but I'm a college sophmore, and I'll add to what books I work on. I use 40 Studies for Clarinet by Cyrille Rose, and H. Klose Celebrated Method for the Clarinet.
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Author: Meri
Date: 2001-08-09 22:48
I take my lessons on an "as needed" basis, for an hour. But this is because both my teacher and I prefer it that way, with me because I'm a very indpendent learner, and with him it's that he would rather have the lessons be student-active, led by the student's questions about playing, plus it gives him time for his other career in real estate.
We usually focus on specific aspects of technique, by telling me how to do it, then having me do it until I have really got the hang of it, then I go from there by finding etudes or creating exercises to focus on that aspect of technique, and then applying it to the music, whether solo, chamber, or band music. Right now it's nos. 1 and 3 from the Cavallini 30 Caprices.
Sometimes there is duet playing, most of the time focussed on dealing with the problem of nervousness, but occasionally for sight-reading purposes.
Meri
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