Author: D
Date: 2009-01-03 19:31
Have you got the Rothwell difficult orchestral excerpts(3 books) and difficult passages from Bach? Always good to dip in and out of. Sorry, don't have them with me and can't remember the exact titles.
Or, there are the Luft Studies, can't remember how bad they are - headache inducing but not all impossible I think!
You could start pushing into the repertoire for other instruments. For example, 'The Baroque Solo Book' - ed Thomas. It is a widely available book of 18th century repertoire for alto recorder. It would really help work on the upper notes but not really go out of range. I'm having a quick flick through and can't at the moment see anything higher than the occasional G. Rhythms are fairly manageable, but for fingering, ornamentation and interpretation it would be great. Bonus is that lots of music shops will have it, and it's a lot of music for the money.
Another idea is to raid the grade 6, 7, and 8 syllabuses of every exam board you can find - particularly looking at pieces from larger books. And look at syllabuses for instruments with similar ranges. Recorder, clarinet, violin etc could all present some interesting challenges - and again, the music is fairly easy to lay your hands on.
Depending on what he needs to work on and what he likes, have you thought about getting him to compose his own stuff, improvise to a chord sequence, blues scales, reading jazz rhythms, find a piece he likes and work it out by ear etc. If he is having any difficulties with aural or theory this could be the ideal time to strengthen those areas.
I'm stuck at about the Fer of Ferling 48 myself at the moment so I can utterly sympathise with him and hope he is having better luck with melodic minor scales than I am.
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