H.L. Clarke's Technical Studies, Study 7

[Grits Burgh]

I'm just now tackling this lesson for the first time and I cannot play through all of the exercises (37 of 'em) in one sitting. I presume that the pros can, but I'm no pro. I was just wondering how other people approach this particular study.

Warm regards,
Grits
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[Dayton]

I usually play 133-150 in one session and then 151-170 in a second session.

Another approach is to play just the odd exercises the first session and then the even exercises in the second session.

It could also be done in four sessions (two per day) if that is too challenging or time consuming. (1) 133-150, odd exercises only; (2) 133-150, even exercises only; (3) 151-169, odd exercises only; (4) 151-169, even exercises only. The etude could be added to any of the sessions.

[Trumpetingbynurture]

Grits,

Isn't Jeff Purtle in South Carolina? Why don't you get lessons?

[dstdenis]

Just my 2¢, but I very rarely practice one kind of thing for an entire practice session. I like to spend maybe 10-15 minutes on each thing, then rest a bit and move on to something else that needs work.
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[MrOlds]

Good question.

You could break them up. Odd numbers one day, even numbers the next. G, Bb, Db, E one day, Ab, B, D, F the next, etc. Or a couple in the low register, a couple in the middle and a couple in the upper register.. Or just work on the ones that give you problems. I think Clarke recommend spending less time on the ones you could do well and more time on the problematic ones.

But you're looking to put all this material into practical perspective. Do you ever need to play them all? If you're training to become a Belle Époque cornet virtuoso or a do-it-all studio musician or if you need to learn hundreds if jazz standards in every key then you'll probably need them all.

But you could do as well finding exercises that help you play the music you really want to play. Artists in other mediums do this. Painters for example develop their own techniques to express their vision. Kandinsky didn't spend years learning to faithfully recreate Rembrandt.

It's hard enough just to learn to do what we are called to do really well without having to learn what everyone else was called to do.

[kehaulani]

In other words, just use common sense.

Use them, don't let them use you. You can only do what you can do. Don't take that "do 'em all" rule literally.
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[RandyTX]

For things like this, with a lot of individually numbered exercises, if it's an odd day of the month, I do the odd ones, even day, etc. I rarely do the same exact same exercises for months on end, other than my regular warmup, so it might only go for a week or perhaps a month that way before I change it up with another exercise that works on the same things, but in a different way.
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[Grits Burgh]

[John Mohan]

When I studied with Claude he had me play the whole Study and not split it up. But with my own students, if they're not quite ready to do the whole thing as one Study I have them split it into two separate Studies (133-150 and 151-169). When I do this I still have them practice the Etude when practicing either sub-Study.

Best wishes,

John Mohan
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[Grits Burgh]

[mcstock]

I play them around the circle of 5ths so I hit all 12 keys and all registers (usually extending a little beyond where they're written) but I haven't done all of them as written in years.

FWIW,
Matt
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