Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-06-27 07:02
A while back Mr. Blumberg started one of my favorite threads on favorite clarinet YouTube videos. I know many of us enjoy it.
Along these lines, and maybe this will fail miserable--which is completely okay--I was wondering if fellow pedagogues might want to offer a post, 4 sentences or less, on their favorite clarinet advice to players. It could be a resource that players check with, for example, when facing a road block, to make sure that the important suggestions made here, for them at least, are being adhered to.
Try not to repeat themes, unless embellishment is warranted, but feel free to post repeatedly.
I think I have a near exhaustive list of them, but I'll go with my most important one, and hope others will chime in. Those who know my stance on study here will find this one no surprise.
======== My initial 4 sentence or less "clarinetism" ======
"A clarinet player's best friend is motivation, discipline, an etude book, and a metronome. Diligent repetitive study of etudes, with near religious adherence of the fingers to the metronome beat, taken no faster then passages can be played accurately and cleanly with no extraneous notes, is the fastest path to advancement. If only a small section is challenging then slow the metronome for that, not wasting precious time playing something slower than ability or correct tempo require. By no means is this the only method of advancement, just one of its pillars."
====What's your 2 cents?=============
Oh--and try not simply offering a suggestion, but a path.
Post Edited (2017-06-27 22:16)
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