Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Fingerworks and Tongueing Coordination Exercise

For this exercise, you will be practising on many aspects of Clarinet playing.

This exercise consists of 3 parts in each scale:

1) Hold a long note to ensure that the note sounds good and is stable
       - This is the foundation of Clarinet playing which is the sound / tone without needing to bother about fingerworks or tongueing

2) Tongue the note 10 times
       - This is to add in the tongue without affecting the tone quality of the note

3) Play the entire scale, articulating each note once
      - This is to train the coordination between the fingers and the tongue

For this exercise, you start from the lowest E note of the clarinet all the way till you hit the high C. After that you would start from high C and play down the scale.

Here is how the exercise should be:

E~~~~EEEE EEEE EEFG ABCD E~ (hold for one beat)
F~~~~FFFF FFFF FFGA BCDE F~
G~~~~GGGG GGGG GGAB CDEF G~
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C~~~~CCCC CCCC CCDE FGAB C~ (high C)
C~~~~CCCC CCCC CCBA GFED C~ (down the scale)
B~~~~BBBB BBBB BBAG FEDC B~
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E~~~~EEEE EEEE EEFG ABCD E~~~~~~