Your goal should be to familiarize yourself with as many of the great recordings and clarinetists as you can.
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The book should also serve as a starting point to begin to create your own exercises and linear concept, and move you forward in an “organic” natural way, as opposed to memorizing licks and patterns.Ī final word on the music……spend the money and begin building your CD or download library. I believe my book will provide you with the tools to do exactly that, particularly if you supplement the book with some work and oversight with a fine clarinet instructor who has some experience in the jazz idiom. Said another way, be as deeply influenced by the music and source material as you can be, and do your own transcription work. I firmly believe in the practice of learning classic jazz solos note for note, playing them daily until they are totally instinctual and natural, and then finally writing them out. This journey through the history and technical challenges of the clarinet can provide the studious and curious young musician/clarinetist with enough food for thought to last a lifetime. The purpose of this book is to take intermediate level clarinetists, who have virtually no background with improvisation, and provide them with the tools to develop their ears, their technique, and their understanding of jazz harmony through the study of the the clarinet’s rich recorded legacy. In my book I have tried to bring together a lot of diverse material, things that I’ve developed through my teaching, exercises that I’ve learned from my mentors, and things that I’ve culled from recordings and extrapolated into exercises for my students. The above books contain a lot of material, and clearly they all assume a pretty high level of clarinet expertise to even begin to work from. Hand in Hand With Hanon by Buddy De Franco Although some of what you will find contained here is rather dated, it is worth investigating this material to see how these Masters of the Clarinet organized their material and thinking:Īrtie Shaw’a Jazz Technic Book One, Scales and Book Two 14 Clarinet Etudes From a historical perspective I think the following books are interesting and having been written by Hall Of Fame clarinetists I think they deserve a place in any serious jazz clarinetists library. These days a quick search of the Internet brings up all sorts of clarinet and saxophone related instructional material……most of which, in my humble opinion, are a complete waste of time, money and paper. It is through my work with many talented young saxophonists and clarinetists, several of whom have gone on to scholarships and studies at Berklee and USC, that I’ve developed what I think is a unique way to work with young students eager to improvise. I often remark, when working with a very talented student, that I’m not sure who is teaching whom. Since that time I’ve made my living performing and teaching, and through my private teaching practice I’ve seen what’s worked, and what hasn’t. My interest in the clarinet originated in my love of the New Orleans clarinet style, and continued with my classical work in academia. My studies included work with Warne Marsh, Joe Henderson, classical saxophone studies with Bill Trimble, Masters studies with former New York Philharmonic clarinetist Peter Simenauer, and sporadic lessons with Eddie Daniels and Ken Peplowski during my tenure in New York City as a graduate student. The genesis of this book is a result of my experience learning to play the clarinet and saxophone and teaching both clarinet and saxophone to over 2,000 students in the last 25 years. The Improvising Clarinetist-Mark Sowlakis
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