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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 [...] One of the things that I’ve struggled with for many years has been playing in the altissimo register. I think people have a hard time playing in that range for a couple reasons, but I want to share a little story first. When I was doing my undergrad I started playing dixieland and then klezmer. Two [...] 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 [...] |
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