Being a student of the clarinet is exciting. If you invest time at the beginning learning the basics of clarinet playing, you will reap rewards for many years to come. Practicing the exercises in this book can help you master the clarinet. the exercises will help you refine your tone, improve your technique, and enhance your musical expression. These are the cornerstones of great clarinet playing. Time spent with these exercises will make you more able to handle difficult passages and concentrate on the music rather than the technique.

Being a student of the clarinet is exciting. If you invest time at the beginning learning the basics of clarinet playing, you will reap rewards for many years to come. Practicing the exercises in this book can help you master the clarinet. The exercises will help you refine your tone, improve your technique, and enhance your musical expression. These are the cornerstones of great clarinet playing. Time spent with these exercises will make you more able to handle difficult passages and concentrate on the music rather than the technique.

Being a student of the clarinet is exciting. If you invest time at the beginninglearning the basics of clarinet playing, you will reap rewards for many years tocome. Practicing the exercises in this book can help you master the clarinet. The exercises will help you refine your tone, improve your technique, and enhance your musical expression. These are the cornerstones of great clarinet playing. Time spent with these exercises will make you more able to handle difficultpassages and concentrate on the music rather than the technique

An ideal combination for the improvement of technical facility, articulation, intonation, and tone.

Practicing the exercises in this book can help you master the clarinet. the exercises will help refine your tone, improve your technique and enhance your musical expression – these are the cornerstones of great clarinet playing. the studies in this book evolved from the Baermann Scale studies. for impetus and melodic direction, each exercise begins on the upbeat. the studies are written using eighth notes in Alla Breve. All studies are re-ordered from the original to a more logical sequence, staying within a given key for each exercise. the studies cover a broad range of musical forms including simple, interrupted and returning scales; major, minor and broken chords; dominant sevenths, thirds and sixths; fifths and octaves and diminished sevenths. Includes many diagrams to aid in learning new fingerings.

Ê100 Essential Exercises for Clarinet is a collection of exercises designed to improve finger positioning, hand positioning and overall technique. Most of the exercises are 32 measures in length. Although most of the studies are written to be played in a legato (slurred) manner, other articulations can be applied. Some of the exercises are written for specific problem areas such as over the break, interval connections, left-hand pinkies and right-hand pinkies. There are a number of pages for scale and arpeggio work, along with five solos at the end of the book for applying articulations. The etudes in this book will enhance the technique of any clarinetist.

Another great addition to the Avrahm Galper Clarinet Series, here Avrahm presents 42 fantastic Klezmer tunes to add to your repertoire. All arranged for clarinet and B-Flat instruments in easy to read notation, all on single pages to avoid awkward page turns. Intermediate in difficulty.