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Playing scales 'mid-scale'

Author: Maruja
Date: 2011-06-14 14:14

I know this is not strictly a clarinet question, more of a general musicianship one, but perhaps someone has some clever ideas for learning scales and arpeggios. I can do these reasonably well normally as I have learned them rather robotically. But I was floored yesterday at my lesson when my teacher asked me to play them from a random note mid-scale. I can see the sense of this as that is how they occur in real life but it occurred to me that my automaticity and lack of flexibility hadn't prepared me for this. I have tried to learn them by saying each note to myself, kinesthetically by noting the fingering and by audition (how it sounds) - I guess the latter is the way forward for picking up at any note. Any ideas would be most welcome

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