Author: donald
Date: 2014-05-24 09:18
You can tell A LOT about a clarinet by playing two tunes....
- Tie a Yellow Ribbon (starting on clarion F), the leap up to D "old oak tree" bit is very revealling, plus the downward leaps, and in that key very good for checking tuning on throat tones- and which resonance fingerings may/may not work.
- My Bonnie lies over the ocean starting on "C above middle C" (ie the lowest clarion C). THEN start the same tune on the clarion F... this tells you a lot about the resonance/tuning/security of the clarion register.
That is where I start, before I bother checking for articulation etc
Something often neglected but very simple- a slow CHROMATIC SCALE from low E. I am constantly amazed how even advanced (and professional level) players can get an instrument home, and then discover that a certain note is fuzzy etc. For heavens sake, just PLAY THEM ALL slowly in a chromatic scale. [I have made myself very unpopular at Clarinetfests-past by trying out "hand picked" clarinets and discovering shortcomings using these three basic tests]
Of course, then I would consider tunes/excerpts etc with articulation and a wider range
dn
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