Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2001-10-07 00:42
Try "The Compleat Klezmer" by Henry Sapoznik, Tara Publications, 1987. Get the accompanying CD. You can order it from their website, which you can get looking it up on a search engine. The section at the beginning has some good material about scales. Most of the recordings I have heard manage to work in at least one of the melodies in this book.
Conspire with other musicians to play klezmer, even if none of you know what you are doing. Listen to recordings, emulate, experiment, add adrenoline.
You will be doing things your teacher never taught you, maybe even taught you not to do: hejjaz minor, defocus notes, bend pitch, over-ornament. Most of all: Have Fun!
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The Ethnic Clarinet
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