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RE: Wonderful Warm-ups

Author: Larry Liberson
Date: 2001-11-16 22:11

I'm certainly not going to contradict David -- but I guess I never thought of using Baermann, Jettel, etc. scales, per se, as 'warm-up' material (fully understanding that we all have our own rituals). For me, I sit down and PRACTICE scales (yeah, still) and I generally keep my in-depth scale work to a single key on a given day (after all, there's a whole lot more to work on....).

If you're looking for something that covers a lot in a quick and concentrated fashion you might consider looking at "The Essentials of Technical Dexterity" by William Stubbins. It has varied tonal (nope, I won't get into the long tone discussion! -- of course, Mr. Stubbins calls them 'flexibility studies!'), finger and articulation studies in all keys throughout the compass of the instrument. It can get you 'warmed-up' sufficiently, for sure.

But it certainly isn't a substitute for devoted scale practice!

Couple of side notes, Amy since I see you're at U of M:

1. William Stubbins was the professor of clarinet at U of M from the mid 1930's until his passing in 1975. I believe that he was the first instrumental teacher brought to Ann Arbor by William D. Revelli.

2. Come to the U-M Campus Symphony Orchestra concert next Tuesday night (8PM) at Hill. This is the top orchestra of those who are not in the School of Music. They are doing the Dvorak New World Symphony (which has several nice clarinet solos) and my daughter (an LS & A sophomore) will be featured as a soloist performing the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Campus SO!

I'll be the guy in the back with the video camera....