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Re: Approaching Klose Book

Author: Ed
Date: 2015-03-25 20:15

Spend some time on the short technical exercises. Most are a couple of measures long. There are a few sections of these. Play them at mm=60. Repeat them a number of times until they are comfortable, smooth and fluid. Focus on evenness, good finger technique. Then repeat in cut time. Do a few of these per day. They are invaluable for developing good your skill and comfort on the instrument.

The exercises in various keys are good and progress rather rapidly in difficulty. There are good studies in articulation, intervals, different registers and a lot of really nice melodic material. Once you get comfortable with the shorter things, go for the longer etudes. If you don't have another player to work with, recorded one part of the the duets and then play the other.

There is so much to work on in that book. It is clearly broken into sections, so do a variety of things covering different topics. Have fun!

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