Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-12-08 08:30
Tom H wrote:
> Actually, I just licked the pinky... no spitting.
>
As many people know, Tom has a terrific etude book out (he did not ask me to plug it, and I am not compensated) called the Most Advanced Clarinet Book.
The name is not an exaggeration. In the best way I can describe it, and I mean this in the best way, Tom's etudes have a near perfect level of randomness in notes, rhythms and accidentals that make the ability to memorize content extremely difficult such that the player much CONCENTRATE and make zero assumptions about the notes coming up.
Some time spent in this book makes the melodic and repetitious nature of works designed to be more pleasing to the ear than advance the technique his work strives to do, seem...easier.
Anyway, after the last etude in the book Tom, (which he aptly named "The Roller Coaster" for its wide range in pitch of its notes) I'd like, "in version 2 of your book," to add a page gratis I'd like you to call "Pinky Swaps n Slides."
In it the reader will be forced, even if in possession of a left pinky Eb/D#/Ab/G# key, to do all the sliding and mid note pinky swaps necessary to line up a right pink or left pink !
We can add user playing guideslines that say that if, say, a is taken with the left pinky in the first play of the etude, that it is taken with the right in the second go around!!!
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