Professional Technique Guide: Book 2

Description

Prices are in AUD. Hard copies are only available for shipping within Australia. Digital downloads are available worldwide.

Building on the foundational principles established in its predecessor, Book 2 continues the development of technique to an advanced level. This book focuses on exploring the clarion register while expanding the capacity of your technique and musical literacy. Explore advanced concepts typically introduced at a tertiary level, demystified for early to intermediate level clarinettists. Expect to find more substantial works with piano toward the end of the book that span a page or two at a standard of AMEB grade 5.

Note: piano accompaniments are sold in a separate booklet due to the sheer number of combined pages making binding impossible.

Featuring

• Professional-level technique established right from the start
• Advanced concepts demystified with approachable explanations
• Tailor-composed exercises and fifty pieces to practise concepts in thorough,  concise and effective ways
• Ensemble opportunities with numerous duets and seventeen pieces with piano accompaniment (piano booklet sold separately)
• Emphasis on establishing a strong foundation of literacy, understanding and technique
• Eclectic education on historical context, current performance practices and music theory
• Colour diagrams and pictures to aid in conceptual understanding and engagement
• YouTube companion videos

Contents 

• Lesson 1: High Notes
• Lesson 2: Transitioning Registers
• Lesson 3: C Major
• Lesson 4: Compound Time Signatures
• Lesson 5: G Major, F Major
• Lesson 6: Triplets
• Lesson 7: D Major, Bb Major, Key Signatures
• Lesson 8: Intonation, Tuning, Adjusting Pitch
• Lesson 9: Voicing and Arpeggios
• Lesson 10: Tonguing Across Registers
• Lesson 11: Understanding Intervals, Minor Keys, D Minor, G Minor
• Lesson 12: Advanced Semiquaver Rhythms
• Lesson 13: Advanced Triplet Rhythms, A Major, Eb Major
• Lesson 14: Swung Rhythms
• Lesson 15: Swung Semiquavers, A Minor, B Minor
• Lesson 16: Phrasing, E Major, Ab Major
• Lesson 17: Tempo Changes, Double Dots, F# and C Minor
• Lesson 18: Cut Time, Trills, C# Minor, F Minor
• Lesson 19: Tuning Fifths and Thirds, B Major, Db Major
• Lesson 20: Tempo Rubato, Double Sharps, G# and Bb Minor
• Lesson 21: F# Major, Gb Major, D# Minor, Eb Minor
• Lesson 22: Chromatic Scale, Fast Tonguing