Author: d-oboe
Date: 2007-09-15 13:03
It's actually an F-dorian scale. (No Db in there suzan ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ). Or in other words, the key signature of Eb major, played from the 2nd scale degree (the F).
The best advice I can give you is to practice it very slow, and all slurred first. Choose a speed where you can play it with absolutely no blips or honks between notes. Then, gradually increase the speed until you think you are just about to lose control over the cleanliness of the passage. Then, practice something else for a few minutes, and then come back to it. Practice it with different articulations (two slurred, two tongued; 3 slurred, one tongued..etc...the list is long) but then always go back to the slurred version once in a while. ALWAYS at a speed where you can DO what you are trying to accomplish. You will notice that each time you come back, it gets just a bit easier, and eventually you will be able to play it at the necessary speed.
Oh, and never "test" it playing fast. There's no point. Of course, in rehearsals you have to play it however it is, but at home, only play as fast as you can cleanly.
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