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I’ve recently finished this book by Neal Stephenson. If you don’t know his work, it typically involves Science and Fiction but not always science-fiction. How’s that for clear. Anyway, this particular book deals with topics like geometry quite a bit and I’ve found myself thinking about the clarinet at the same time and so, here we are. Economy [...] Sometimes we come across tricky rhythms in a piece that defy our best practice techniques. Well here’s one more idea that I’ve found extremely helpful. Articulate the subdivisions. For instance on a dotted rhythm articulate all the subdivisions of the long note. So if you’ve got a dotted quarter, articulate eighths. [...] I’ve been thinking a lot about improvisation lately, trying to figure out why I feel it’s so important for classical musicians to learn. Now just a little disclaimer. I haven’t always (and still don’t) only play classical music. I’ve played jazz in a variety of styles, klezmer, and avant-garde musics all of which require improvisation to [...] Sight reading for me is one of those skills that I know is important but rarely have any time to work on. I also, feel that when sight reading something I’d like to actually read as few notes as possible. What I mean is the more patterns we can recognize and play, the easier the piece [...] Every musician regardless of what style they play in needs to practice their scales and arpeggios. It’s an article of faith like saying every musician needs to listen to other musicians. So, like most other clarinetists, I’ve played scales out of a variety of standard books starting with Rubank and later Baerman, Albert and then devoted [...] There’s a nice article on Marion Harrington’s blog about having a consistent practice routine. This is something that every musician really needs. I’ve had different routines at different times but one that has worked the best for me in the past was to practice for an hour or two after every meal. What works well for [...] |
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