Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-10-03 21:59
seabreeze wrote:
> Just fudge the notes? Thumbs down on that suggestion. If you
> can't play a passage as written, write a simplified ossia
> passage with similar harmonic and melodic contours and play
> that substitute well.
Agreed. Mine, need be, deliberately will skis a note or two of the arpeggio center likely not heard by the casual listener. But it will be a well thought out and routinely played compromise, not a haphazard one like that I suspect you seek me to avoid
(Corrado Guiffredi makes it sound so easy!)
> The German clarinetist Josh Michaels worked with students to
> help them play not what their fingers wanted to but what the
> composer actually set on the page.(He may have been going
> through Richard Strauss excerpts with them). Out of his
> struggles to help students corral those wandering fingers,
> Michaels wrote a couple of study books that are worth looking
> into.
Thank you for these thoughts. Funny enough, one of our contributors to this thread, Tom H., wrote what I think is a wonderful book that I own which seeks to do a lot of what you describe:
The Most Advanced Clarinet Book--Austin Macauley Publishers
tomheimer.ampbk.com/ Amazon, Sheet Music Plus
Tom's etudes are not unlike facing a knuckleball pitcher in baseball.
Tom, I hope you take that as its intended complement.
Interspersed with what your brain thinks is a pattern in the music, by I am sure design on Tom's part, all of a sudden some E# or fancy rhythm throws you off balance.
Funny enough, one of the things I think I need to do here is hit the gym and develop some of the wind I lost not going to the gym during Covid (thankfully something that I haven't been sick from.) Aerobic exhaustion can definitely trip me up on notes!
Post Edited (2021-10-03 22:01)
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