Author: seabreeze
Date: 2022-08-15 23:09
Warm-ups can have several purposes. One is to reacquaint the player with the instrument--to get the player plugged in the clarinet, so to speak. Another is to create structure and sense musically speaking instead of just blowing random notes and noodling. How both of these ends are served will of course depend on the technical level of the player. Advanced beginners could be asked to play a few easy, slow scales, arpeggios and intervals in easy keys. C minor scale, G major in thirds, F major, F major seventh chord, B minor chord, D major scale in thirds--that kind of thing. Let them announce each pattern before playing it. This focuses the mind on structure and musical order, while giving the fingers a little reminder of where the keys and tone holes are. No wild showing off--no aimless doodles.
At the other end of the achievement scale, advanced players might want to work all year long on gradually mastering a long, demanding warm up that recapitulates many of the prime difficulties and hurdles in playing clarinet. I shrieked when I first looked at Wonkak Kim's rigorous warm up routine, based on expanding intervals in all keys. But after painfully practicing it, I hear marked improvements in my legato connections and over-all technique.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wonkat+kim+warm+up.
Order, balance, useful musical and technical material should constitute the substance of any warm-up. Most will probably fall between the two examples I have given. Throughout any warm-up, attention should be paid to how the notes speak initially and to deliberate variations in dynamics from ppp to ff and back. This kind of variation mirrors the demands of actual music and is more practical that just playing a series of "long tones." Scales, chords, intervals, not just isolated single tones, are the stuff of real music, so make the warm ups real!
Post Edited (2022-08-15 23:35)
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