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Author: YCL-450
Date: 2006-05-03 12:00
Does anyone know where to find midi files of clarinet scales? And what scales should a beginner be learning?
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2006-05-03 15:46
I did a google search on mide scales and found some you could use. Better yet, make your own using a free program like MakeMusic's Finale Notepad. You can download it from makemusic.com.
You can control the scale, the note units used, the scale pattern, and the speed. For a beginner, the f and g major scales work well.
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Author: YCL-450
Date: 2006-05-03 16:05
johng wrote:
> I did a google search on mide scales and found some you could
> use. Better yet, make your own using a free program like
> MakeMusic's Finale Notepad. You can download it from
> makemusic.com.
>
> You can control the scale, the note units used, the scale
> pattern, and the speed. For a beginner, the f and g major
> scales work well.
Thanks, Johng, I'll check out that program.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-05-03 16:15
YCL:
Get a copy of the free version of Finale, tell the program that you want to write some Bb clarinet music and type in the scales. Use the program's playback feature to play the stuff back through your computer speakers.
Since, if I remember correctly, you are just learning to cross the clarion break, I suggest that you take the time to make customized scales for your own use.
If, for instance, you were to use the Baermann 3 book, you'd want to use the full range of the instrument --not a comfortable challenge for a guy just learning to cross the clarion break.
Make your own scales fit the range you can play and edit them as your useful range expands.
Take the scales in order of increasing number of sharps and flats. none, one b, one #, 2bs, 2#s, and so forth.
Learn both the major and minor scales associated with each key signature as you go. Cmajor ==> Aminor. The A minor scale is made by writing the key signature of Cmajor and then starting on the 6th note of the scale. Same thing applies to F-major, one b. The relative minor is D, the 6th note of the F-major scale. A little later, you'll want to extend your work in the minors to the Harmonic and Melodic Minors --where accidentals are used to make the scales more comfortable for the listener. Later, man.
Along with each scale, write and play the asociated arpeggio: the first, third, fifth notes of the scale. Write the arpeggios down and mix up the ordering of the notes.
Write a second scale where you actually alternate between two scales separated by a third. Start on the tonic (say middle C for the Cmajor scale). Make the second note the third one up the scale (E for our Cmajor scale). Now, with those two notes in place, alternate between two scales going up from those two notes. The lower scale is the C-major scale: CDEFGABC, and the upper is raised by a third: efgabcde. The interleaved scale-in-thirds is CeDfEgFaGbAcBdCe. Go up and back down
When you start each new scale or arpeggio, think carefully about which alternate fingerings you should be using. For example, sometimes as you rise across the break, you'll want to take the B with your right pinky, and sometimes, you'll want to hit it with the left pinky. Early on, you'll want to choose carefully between the two fingerings for B3, F4, F5. A teacher can really help you avoid bad choices early.
I like your approach; it is correct and ambitious.
You might also get an elementary methods book and crib the scales into your own Finale files --easier to make those clerical choices as you transcribe the notes.
Good luck.
Bob Phillips
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