Author: allencole
Date: 2005-05-28 09:02
One other factor in favor of the Arban book as well as Clarke Technical Studies. Clarinet method books tend to be very clarinet-oriented, often showcasing the instrument's strengths and possibly skirting its weaknesses. Also, a lot of the exercises tend to be conventional scales, arpeggios, scales in thirds, fourths, fifths, etc.
Those trumpet books have some real finger twisters that were not written with our technical limitations in mind and some of them become quite brutal as they cycle through various keys.
Here is my quick-and-dirty warmup routine:
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (triplet pattern) in all keys. (essentially, this just the major scales in a mixed-up pattern)
Accidental Tourist (my own composition designed to deal with key familiarity in the face of accidentals...chord changes somewhat resemble Billy Taylor's "Easy Walker")
Intro from "Bebop" (Dizzy Gillespie?) - Use of natural minor scales and diminished chords in a constant Imi/V7-9 pattern. Again, in all keys.
This provides a decent technical warmup in 10-20 minutes, and doing it ear wakes up a lot of things that I need for jazz improvisation. The lack of a visual context also increases the challenge of pinkie strategy, even though this is something that I play regularly.
Given more time, I add more conventional Baermann-style things and some ii-V exercises to the warmup.
Allen Cole
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