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jairo_saade Regular Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2020 Posts: 55 Location: Panamá
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:10 am Post subject: Arban and Clarke practice plan 1 our 4 times a week |
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Hi all,
I am in need of suggestion of a practice plan for 1 hour 3-4 times a week sessions. The idea is to keep things as simple as possible, focusing only on Arban and Clarke with a metronome.
The goals are: polish attacks and tonguing, master the scales/keys that are more complex when it comes to fingering and that are basic to learning Jazz standards and improvisation.
It would be awesome if you could post detailed plan if you had in Word or PDF (exercise number, suggested tempo, order of exercises, etc).
Thanks in advance.
Joe. _________________ Joe S |
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tomba51 Heavyweight Member
Joined: 24 Nov 2001 Posts: 619 Location: Hilton Head, SC
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Dayton Heavyweight Member
Joined: 24 Mar 2013 Posts: 2041 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Arban is easy. You have at least two choices for well thought-out practice sessions: Eric Bolvin's Arban Manual, and Gerard Prescott's Arban Technic System. Both books tell you what to practice in Arban. Bolvin also gets into how to practice it. In my mind that makes Bolvin’s book more useful for someone studying on their own.
In the case of Clarke, here are a few options to consider.
The easiest option is to refer to Claude Gordon's Systematic Approach to Daily Practice and follow the detailed approach to Clarke therein; ideally along with the other exercises written out in the book or referred to (Smith, Colin, Irons, etc.).
Alternatively, you could follow Chris Gekker’s excellent Summer Practice Routine, which appears to be public domain, so I will quote from the Clarke section of his routine:
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Do one study a day. This makes a very nice eight-day cycle, where we hit our fundamentals every day within the framework of varying demands.
No. 1 – At least eight times in one breath. Whisper soft. Once you are in the middle register, legato tongue a few of them (four times through when tonguing).
No. 2 – Each one twice, at first. Stop where Clarke stops, don’t continue into the high register (this is meant to be an “easy” day). After you are very comfortable with these drills, go through each one four times: slurred, single tongue, K tongue, and double tongue – and keep the tempo the same throughout.
No. 3 – Each one twice. Work in some tonguing after you learn the patterns. Keep striving to be able to play these softly.
No. 4 – Play using the same approach as No. 3.
No. 5 – On this one we can open up dynamically as we ascend to the highest notes. Keep as much of it as “conversational” as possible. For now, skip the scale exercises 99-116.
No. 6 – Play these just as written, so the tongued arpeggios at the end are in contrast to the slurred material.
No. 7 – Again, work in some tonguing as you get comfortable technically. Stay as soft as possible. For now, skip the arpeggio exercises 151-169.
No. 8 – Play using the same approach as No. 7.
On your first few cycles, omit the etudes at the end of each study. After the studies are fairly well learned, start to learn them. I usually tongue the etude after going through the studies where I use a mixture of slurring and legato tonguing. Clarke recommends a fair amount of multiple tonguing practice – I prefer to stick to legato single tonguing, except for the drill on the Second Study.
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Good luck! |
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Bolvin: https://bolvinmusic.com/product/arban-manual/ _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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