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Author: davidsampson
Date: 2016-01-08 06:58
I recently started playing again after a couple of years of not practicing. It's tough as I knew it would be, but thankfully my fingers have barely dropped off at all. My articulation, tone, breath support, et al. is a different story... The Rose etudes have been a good way to ease back into it -- they keep my fingers interested and they bring back a lot of memories from playing them before. I'll run out soon (as much as you really can, I suppose), and I want to find something else in the same vein. The studies in Klose and Baermann bore me to tears, not necessarily because they are technically easy, simply because I don't find the music as interesting. Any ideas for what I can try?
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2016-01-08 07:23
Hey there David,
I just left Huntsville. We just missed each other.
I like these odd exercises by Lyle Spud Murphy. He gets a little 'jiggy' with his chord progressions so I'd look at the book II first - Modern Harmonic Patterns for clarinet, published by Western International Music Inc (and you need to go to their website too!). Book III moves a little fast harmonically so you never feel "settled."
There are also the Alfred Uhl 48 Studies (also pretty challenging).
Sounds like you don't want the usual list, but there's also Stark Arpeggio Studies, the Cavallini Caprices and Kell Staccato Studies.
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: Wes
Date: 2016-01-08 10:34
The Perrier studies still interest me although they may be more difficult to find as well as being more expensive. The Baermann studies may improve your playing but the compositions are not interesting.
The 15 Grandes Solos have always been good to work on but are not technical exercises as such.
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2016-01-08 16:41
"Advanced Studies for Clarinet" and "12 Etudes for Clarinet" by Victor Polatschek and my old favorite "416 Studies for Clarinet" by Kroepsch
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-01-08 21:04
Looking at the suggestions so far, I second the Victor Polatachek and the Baermann Method Books 4 and 5 because if you can play well through these, you can play quite a lot of actual music. Three more suggestions would be the Jeanjean Vingt (20) Etudes (three volumes), the Himie Voxman Classical Studies (Rubank), and the Rudolph Jettel Preliminary Studies to the Accomplished Clarinetist (three volumes). Also the Fred Thurston Passage Studies (three volumes).
Most etude books don't give you enough training in rhythmic solfeggio--the rhythms and their subdivision are just too easy and can be "faked" through. The Jeanjean Vingt Etudes use a clever system of isorhythms that juxtapose figurations that are almost but not quite the same and keep you on your toes trying to subdivide them correctly. Anyone who get though all three volumes is likely to have very sharpened rhythmic skills as a result.
The Voxman (Rubank) Classical Studies transcribe great works of Bach and Handel that are more intrinsically interesting than Mazas and Ferling etudes in Rose could ever be. At about $9.50 this 72 page book is the best sheet music bargain on the market. Playing these gives you stamina and style.
The Jettel Preliminary Studies were written when Jettel discovered most of his students couldn't get through his 3-volume The Accomplishned Clarinetist and needed remedial work to prepare them for its rigors. The Preliminary Studies take you out of the harmonic and melodic conventions of the classical and romantic periods and place you solidly within the era of 20th century modernism but not into the later world of multiphonics. Jettel is quite playable and only requires close attention to what is actually notated. The player's fingers may want to go in the usual harmonic and melodic patterns but Jettel sends them in new and different directions. Personally I love to practice even Jettel's more advanced stuff too, like the 2nd book of his Clarinet Method, the 10 Technical Studies and the dreaded 3-volume Accomplished Clarinetist. But that is going beyond what you asked for.
Finally, Thurston Passsage studies are great introductions to different musical styles and problems clarinetists have to surmount to cope with the demands of actual music.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2016-01-09 00:07
This may sound a bit weird, but I sometimes like playing violin music because there is so much more written for it, compared to the clarinet. Some of the notes go too high though so drop them down an octave.
I agree that you can get bored playing Rose everyday!
Great posts from others above. Kell isn't too difficult when getting back to the horn.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2016-01-09 01:29
Bob--as you probably realize, so many of the classic clarinet etude books were adaptions of etude books originally written for string instruments.
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OP: if you'd like to improve your sightreading, and who, having taken a hiatus from playing wouldn't, and boredom is an issue---allow me to suggest the following small fee website, which I use, but have no [financial] affiliation with.
https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/
Computer generated random "diddies," which offer no correlation with real tunes for the user to "cheat" rhythms and notes on from memory, including user controlled keys and difficulty, get results.
The sight offers samples. And improving sight readings results in the better articulation, tone, and breath support you seek.
It sounds like you don't need a primer in the classic etude books out there. Communicate if that's not the case, and/or search this site for the plethora of threads on the suggested books for study.
Remember--never take anything faster than you can play it. To do so, and make mistakes is to only reinforce errors. Use a metronome.
It's infinitely easier to speed up correctly played passages over time, than take ones you've made mistakes on repeatedly because you've played them too fast, to only then slow down the metronome, get right, and then speed up on.
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2016-01-09 03:15
¿Have you really done all the Roses? There's 40 Studies, 32 Studies and 9 Caprices all in one book edited by David Hite and 20 Grand Studies in an inexpensive edition published by International.
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Author: davidsampson
Date: 2016-01-09 03:25
I hadn't seen the 20 Grand Studies or the 9 Caprices, I'll have to check those out. I had done all 40+32 before I stopped playing, so I've been able to play them all after one or two tries.
Thanks for all of your suggestions everyone! I have books of Polatschek and Uhl studies on the way.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-01-09 04:18
Uhl was a very good composer. Naoko Kotaniguchi (principal clarinet in the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Japan) has done a splendid recording of all 48 etudes on ALM CD, ALCD 3102-3103, and many of the etudes featuring harp-like arpeggios come off especially well. They could even be used as performance selections in a recital.
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