Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 12:30 pm Post subject: Clarke #2 Anyone!
My guess is if you are bothering to read this post, you have spent several years of your life working on Study #2 in the H.L. Clarke Technical Studies book. To state "it's a favorite of mine" is to admit to a high degree of masochism and possibly self loathing. Still, one cannot deny the benefits gained from woodshedding this study.
In my quest to always take something hard and make it all the harder, I have rhythmically reconfigured this study in several different ways. The first reconfiguration has the series offset by two notes. Additionally there are reconfigurations in 6/8, 5/8 and 7/8.
I had been practicing these studies in this manner for many years and only decided to copy them out one year, as punishment for a troublesome student. I remember thinking "these will keep him busy!"
Rhythmically reconfiguring passages to help with their execution is a great practice technique that was highly favored by two of my teachers, Robert Nagel and Thomas Stevens. Music notation software makes this practice fun to experiment with.
Jay Lichtmann _________________ In his retirement he had become that most dreaded of former athletes, the one who always remembered how much harder it was in his day "when ships were made of wood and men were made of steel."
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:55 pm Post subject:
benlewis wrote:
Thanks (I think!!!), Jay!!!
Seconded (no pun intended) - I thought I was mean to myself by extending them above the staff but I see have much to expand in masochism even with Clarke 2 _________________ More than one trumpet
A "few" mouthpieces
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