Clarinet Secrets: 100 Performances Strategies for the Advances Clarinetist

This second edition of Clarinet Secrets is a compilation of Distinguished Professor Michele Gingras?s acclaimed books that spearheaded Rowman & Littlefield?s Music Secrets series: Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets. It is the result of Gingras?s thirty years of hands-on experience spent in the clarinet studio working with students. Learn practical and technical secrets about rapid tonguing and double-tonguing; circular breathing; sight-reading and transposition; reed fixing and repair equipment; improving tone, intonation, technique, and musicianship; contemporary techniques; classical and non-classical performance;performance anxiety; auditioning; career planning and marketability; and more.The concepts are discussed in a straightforward way, explained clearly, and illustrated with photos, diagrams, and musical examples. Easy to use and intended for the intermediate and advanced musician, this second edition of Clarinet Secrets is perfect for students in a class or private situation, professionals, or instructors engaged in pedagogical research.

CONTENIDO:

TONGUING STRATEGIES
Secret 1: Rocket-Speed Tonguin
Secret 2: One-Motion Tonguin
Secret 3: Energy-Saving Tonguin
Secret 4: Finger-Tongue Coordination
Secret 5: Effortless Staccato across All Registers
Secret 6: Relaxed Jaw
Secret 7: The Light Tongue Exercise
Secret 8: Ping!
Secret 9: Articulation Vocabulary
Secret 10: Double Tonguing
Secret 11: Flutter Tonguing
Secret 12: Slap Tonguin
INTONATION STRATEGIES
Secret: 13: Practicing with the Drone
Secret 14: Hearing Difference Tones
Secret 15: Tuning with the Piano
Secret 16: Using Fingers to Modify Intonation
Secret 17: Flat Chin
Secret 18: Three-Step Embouchure
Secret 19: Training Wheel for Lowering the Pitch
Secret 20: Tuning Games
Secret 21: Playing with a Very Soft Reed to Eliminate Biting
Secret 22: Ear Training for Clarinetists
Quick-Tips Bulletin Board - Intonation
TONE STRATEGIES
Secret 23: Breathing
Secret 24: Air Management
Secret 25: The Stereo Effect
Secret 26: Dissecting Tone
Secret 27: Practice Tone Vs. Concert Tone
Secret 28 Tone Shopping
Secret 29: Printing Sound into Memory
Secret 30: Improving Embouchure Endourance
Secret 31: Knot in Tone
Secret 32: Playing with Fire
Secret 33: The Phone is Ringing!
Secret 34: Stopwach Long Tones
Secret 35: Eliminating Cracking in High Registers
Quick-Tips Bulletin Board - Tone
TECHNICAL STRATEGIES
Secret 36: natural Finger Motion
Secret 37: The Hat Trick for Scales
Secret 38: The Half-Hole Exercise for Wide Intervals
Secret 39: Half-Hole Thumb
Secret 40: Left Index Finger
Secret 41: Little Finger
Secret 42: Perfecting the Chromatic Scale
Secret 43: Perfecting the High Register
Secret 44: Play Air Clarinet
Secret 45: The Stick on a Fence
Secret 46: Working with a Practice Partner
Secret 47: Predicting mental Concentration
Secret 48: Sight-Reading
Secret 49: Transposition
Secret 50: Unusual Transporsitions in Orchestral Excerpts
Secret 51: Developing Technical Independence
Secret 52: Altissimo Chromatic Fingering
Secret 53: Altissimo Register Response
Secret 54: Super Altissimo Register
Secret 55: Practicing in Front of a Mirror or Video Camera
Quick-Tips Bulletin Board - Technique
MUSICIANSHIP STRATEGIES
Secret 56: Remembering Nature
Secret 57: Memorization
Secret 58: Listening to Opera Arias
Secret 59: Playing with Piano Accompaniment
Secret 60: Preparing Your Music Before the Performance
Secret 61: Keep a Practice Journal
Secret 62: Practice Tactics
Secret 63: Playing Posture
Secret 64: Recording Your Practice Sessions
Quick-Tips Bulletin Board - Musicianship
REEDS AND EQUIPMENT
Secret 65: Breaking in a New Clarinet
Secret 66: Selecting a Mouthpiece
Secret 67: Mouthpice Patch
Secret 68: Tool-Free Reed Prep
Secret 69: Positioning Your Reed
Secret 70: Express-Speed Reed Balancing
Secret 71: Reed Clipper
Secret 72: Reed Rush
Secret 73: Synthetic Reeds
Secret 74: Installing an Instant Neck-Strap Ring
Secret 75: Moleskin Padding
Secret 76: Tape in Tone Hole
Secret 77: Tape Types
Secret 78: Valentino Synthetic Corks
Secret 79: Swab Removal Tool
Secret 80: Emergency Equipment
Secret 81: Bore Oil
Secret 82: EZO Theeth Cushion
Quick-Tips Bulletin Board - Reeds and Equipment
ENCHANCING REPERTOIRE
Secret 83: Be the First to Practice Second Clarinet Orchestral Parts
Secret 84: E-Flat Piccolo Clarinet
Secret 85: Bass Clarinet
Secret 86: Woodwind Doubling
Secret 87: Military Band Auditions
Secret 88: Clarinet and Organ
Secret 89: Historic Chalumeau
Secret 90: German Clarinet
Secret 91: Jazz Clarinet
Secret 92: Playing World Music
Secret 93: Klezmer
Secret 94: Glissando á la Gershwin
Secret 95: Vibrato
Secret 96: Circular Breathing
Secret 97: Multiphonics
Secret 98: Growling
Secret 99: Braving Stage Fright
Secret 100: Technology for Clarinetist
Quick-Tips Bulletin Board - Final Tips
FURTHER READING
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR