Author: GBK
Date: 2003-08-09 04:50
Earlier this year I began to supplement two of my more advanced student's lessons with selected sections from the Arban trumpet method. (For those that may not know - the Arban Method for trumpet is the rough equivalent of what the Klosé book is for clarinetists).
I have seen a marked growth in both student's playing, and I am starting to think it has something to do with the Arban studies. Tonguing speed has increased (neither student can double tongue - but their single tonguing is now definitely quicker), scale facility has greatly improved (as Arban has many scale patterns and drills to choose from), and sight reading is more secure (Arban has 150 short phrasing/sightreading melodies taken primarily from operas).
One nice feature of the Arban book is that all the exercises, melodies, duets, themes and variations, etc... all lie (for the most part) between C4 and C6, thus the student gets to build technical skills in the most used clarinet register.
Also, after 30+ years of teaching out of Klosé, Rose, Baermann, Kell, etc... it is rejuvenating to find another supplemental method which builds skills and covers ground in a slightly different way.
The only problem - the book weighs about 2 pounds...GBK
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