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Author: jsantos1
Date: 2018-08-09 22:45
Hello everyone!
So I started playing clarinet 3 months ago and I'm loving it so far! Currently, I'm practicing for about 1.5h~ per day and I'm doing a warm-up (long tones from low E to high C + scales/arpeggios at 60 bpm), Klosé's daily mechanism exercises and then some music. While I' see A LOT of improvement with this routine, I was wondering if I could add something else, because for some reason I feel something is missing. Two things I may not be practicing enough (because I don't know how to do it) are tonguing/articulation and high notes.
Do you guys have some recommendations on what else I could be practicing? Any general tips to keep progressing?
Thanks in advance!
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-08-09 23:31
jsantos1 wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm practicing for about 1.5h~ per day and I'm
> doing a warm-up (long tones from low E to high C +
> scales/arpeggios at 60 bpm), Klosé's daily mechanism exercises
> and then some music.
> Two things
> I may not be practicing enough (because I don't know how to do
> it) are tonguing/articulation and high notes.
>
> Do you guys have some recommendations on what else I could be
> practicing? Any general tips to keep progressing?
There's no reason why you can't practice articulation when you play some of your scales. Legato (slurred) scales are important because articulation can mask technical sloppiness, but you can play some of the scales with patterns of separate and connected notes - 2-slurred-two tongued, three-slurred-one-tongued (or the reverse), all tongued, etc.. Do each scale differently or do each scale several times with different articulation patterns.
Range can also be extended with your scale practice. Are you already extending into the "clarion" register (above the "break")? It sounds as though you are ("long tones from low E to high C +"). If you want to venture into the third register (above C6 - 2nd leger line above the staff), add an additional octave to some of your scales.
Not that there aren't a gazillion books of studies and collections of songs and solo pieces that will exercise the same things, many of which are more interesting than scales to play, but there's no reason why you can't extend your technique using just basic rudiments.
Karl
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