It's always nice to hear another teacher telling his students the same thing I tell mine! Makes me feel like less of a scold! Want to play something hard? Practice your scales every day. There are no shortcuts. (Unless you consider practicing your scales umpteen million times to be a shortcut.)
Dude, you're being so modest, you did an excellent job, so much intensity!!! I'm glad you made me pay attention to this etude, that I probably would have otherwise never noticed. This could legitimately be arranged as the last movement of a concerto.
You. Are. Awesome. Not just at playing, but how you make your videos. That got the point across so well. I'll be back to watch more, right after I practice my scales. ;)
I went to MSM and was a clarinet major. Never met you but know your students well. You're awesome, hilarious, and spot on. My professors at Northwestern used to make me play Baermann in lessons hated it but grew to love it. Thanks for the video.
Upon relearning the last two of the Rose 32 studies, I found this advice incredibly useful. To get the Db Major passages smooth (especially in the throat tones of the left hand), I found practicing the Db scale, repeating scale, returning scale, and thirds of Baermann 3 to work magic. Thanks for this great tip!
The chord in question at 4:34 is a "concert" C7 (b9), the E natural being the leading tone to the F minor (your G minor). I use studies like these for guitar. It is good to break down the chords, key changes or modulations as they're stated throughout a piece. That is how one begins to understand studies like these--as you're doing in this video--great stuff. It is important not just to be able to play studies like these but to be able to "hear" them as well.
Baermann is great. You might point out that the part you are talking about is published as Part 3 or sometimes Division 3. In other words people don't have to buy the entire Baermann to get the part you are talking about.
Scales are important to playing them technically correct, but phrasing is incredibly important for the rose etudes, and is almost as important as notes In an audition
BRAVO!!! (your conclusion) "Mr. Saxmusicmail... why do I have to learn all these scales and arpeggios?" Because it's all scales and arpeggios! This video should be required viewing for every music class, band, orchestra, private student lessons, all of it.
I just did a recording of this on my channel (albeit not on bass, which makes things a bit trickier). To be fair, the worst Rose studies are awkwardly and tremendously disjunct, which scales and arpeggios won't help much for. However, giving them a bit of operatic rubato at the right times makes just about everything manageable :) There are some awkward passages on this that you pulled off very effortlessly, bravo!
My private lesson teacher literally did this to me. He gave me the scales book and then proceeded to play both my solo and one of the rose etudes flawlessly and I- yeah, I just kinda died but now I know why I’ve been told to learn scales my entire life
I use the same finger placements as a Bb soprano clarinet when playing the bass clarinet so I was proud when today I could play the high G (using the octave key that is in the same place as it is on the soprano.) considering I didn’t practice at all unless it was in band class (1 hour every other day) and I couldn’t even play the B last band class. The teacher was telling me to firm my embouchure and put more air into it (for lower notes but it works for higher notes)
Let me guess before I watch the whole video. Scales? Ugh I hate practicing scales😠 Like if I should wake up early to get an extra hour of practice before school 👇
I practice scales and arpeggios and thirds and fourths and octaves from first year all to now. Not it’s my 4th year of playing and the foundation that buil for myself helped me a lot on playing Mozart’s clarinet concerto (not on bass clarinet) on bflat clarinet
+Orlando Rodriguez Learn the multiple tonguings, or just take simple patterns (4 quarters, then 6 quarters as triplets, then 8 eighths, then 12 eighths and so on to sixteenths) start at a slow tempo and play until you you can tongue it perfectly.. Then bump up the metronome by 2 or 5. Do these everyday if possible, or just when you can, the more you practice, the faster you'll get faster
Thanks so much for all your videos.. Appreciate all the insight. Quick question how do you keep your 16th notes so even.. I can practice scales all day long, but once I hit a certain speed I notice some fingers are faster than others... Any tips on how to keep fast passages so even?
So firstly this comment is obvious - we know you get better if you practice. Secondly, it's REALLY not useful. Nobody cares about that answer because it doesn't matter. Too answer the original question; I could write out advice orrrrr rather I could link another EarspasmMusic video; ua-cam.com/video/DVH4Omq87gA/v-deo.html
Bryce Porter it does matter tho. Literally the only reason people get really good at instruments is because they practice, a lot. You can’t expect to get better if you don’t invest a crazy amount of time
question: How do I develop that speedy coordination among my fingers? Do I simply practice scales as fast as I can (starting out slowly first, of course)?
Well, maybe add in a dash of legato, phrasing, articulation and humour to Baermann, and Bach, Rose snuck a little of Bach's Violin Partitas into one of his Etudes
Don't know if it is the recording quality or your real sound, but I really find the clarinet sound here way too bright and reedy for my taste, for concert music. I can't hear the beauty in this piece at all. The tone just gets in the way for me.
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I am currently on a student model. I am a serious bass clarinet player who has made all state and plan on playing in college. Do you think I should invest in a professional horn now? How different is it playing the two?
Idk if you're still looking or not, but I've heard great things of a brand called Ridenour that makes great basses for around 3 G's, I'm saving for it since I'm also in college and can't afford an 11 thousand dollar horn....
Do you know how to play jazz music? I would like to see what happens when you take a solo without reading music! Great job by the way, you sound awesome!!!
When I say take a solo I mean improvise, reading the music in your head! I'd like to hear what that sounds like. Over any chord progression you like of course
I love your videos!! I play clarinet myself but I didn’t end up going in the collegiate route in college with it. Do you think I’d have any success playing in a classical setting without much collegiate playing?
Coming from someone who once upon a time many years ago was first chair for 5A clarinet at TMEA, I must say: your video is definitely true. However: your approach and your explanation is somewhat rude and NOT conducive to the mind of the developing student; VERY toxic, especially for students who come from underprivileged school backgrounds (like I did). My high school lesson teacher lost ALL her business after she started acting this way with me in lessons. I genuinely didn't appreciate her putting me down for not knowing scales (again, my school district simply just didn't have that fantastic of a music program). You claim that the etudes are so easy, and while scales are elementary to a performing musician, they most certainly are going to CHALLENGE the developing student. Simply put: your message is without a doubt true, but it is heavily obscured with seasoned arrogance towards the underdeveloped student.
Hey there, have you watched any of my other videos? It's not arrogance, it's snark. Think of it as a no-BS attitude toward learning. There's so much misinformation on UA-cam, I prefer go for the direct approach.
y0shiness Coming from a high school player who was all-state, all-south, and a member of the NASA High School Saxophone Ensemble this past year, I completely agree with everything in this video. It was just a no vs approach, if you do it this was, then the rest is easy, nothing wrong with that.
It's always nice to hear another teacher telling his students the same thing I tell mine! Makes me feel like less of a scold!
Want to play something hard? Practice your scales every day. There are no shortcuts. (Unless you consider practicing your scales umpteen million times to be a shortcut.)
Malcolm Dickinson people always ask or speculate wow “I wish I was that good” or “how does one get that good” like you said PRACTICE 😅
Yeah but let’s face it, they are going to be bored…ughhh
Apart from being so good at playing and teaching Clarinet, you are also so charismatic and funny. Always a joy to watch your content.
He is RIPPING it on that bass clarinet! I've heard some good playing before but THIS reset the bar.
watch his video where he plays "God Bless the Child" by Dolphy. Around 6:40 He starts going completely insane
wish i saw this video when chair placement auditions were going on
Wow. Good thing F major is my specialty.
Dude, you're being so modest, you did an excellent job, so much intensity!!! I'm glad you made me pay attention to this etude, that I probably would have otherwise never noticed.
This could legitimately be arranged as the last movement of a concerto.
You. Are. Awesome.
Not just at playing, but how you make your videos.
That got the point across so well.
I'll be back to watch more, right after I practice my scales. ;)
incredibly helpful. i need a scale book like that in my daily practice routine and now i have one that i know will be of great use to me. thank you!
I went to MSM and was a clarinet major. Never met you but know your students well. You're awesome, hilarious, and spot on. My professors at Northwestern used to make me play Baermann in lessons hated it but grew to love it. Thanks for the video.
Upon relearning the last two of the Rose 32 studies, I found this advice incredibly useful. To get the Db Major passages smooth (especially in the throat tones of the left hand), I found practicing the Db scale, repeating scale, returning scale, and thirds of Baermann 3 to work magic. Thanks for this great tip!
The chord in question at 4:34 is a "concert" C7 (b9), the E natural being the leading tone to the F minor (your G minor). I use studies like these for guitar. It is good to break down the chords, key changes or modulations as they're stated throughout a piece. That is how one begins to understand studies like these--as you're doing in this video--great stuff. It is important not just to be able to play studies like these but to be able to "hear" them as well.
Thanks! Very motivational. I'll be sure to do my scales every time I practice from now on.
Baermann is great. You might point out that the part you are talking about is published as Part 3 or sometimes Division 3. In other words people don't have to buy the entire Baermann to get the part you are talking about.
What he said.
Joe Allard recommended the Baermann Book (Complete) when I first started on clarinet.
Scales are important to playing them technically correct, but phrasing is incredibly important for the rose etudes, and is almost as important as notes In an audition
BRAVO!!! (your conclusion) "Mr. Saxmusicmail... why do I have to learn all these scales and arpeggios?" Because it's all scales and arpeggios! This video should be required viewing for every music class, band, orchestra, private student lessons, all of it.
I just did a recording of this on my channel (albeit not on bass, which makes things a bit trickier). To be fair, the worst Rose studies are awkwardly and tremendously disjunct, which scales and arpeggios won't help much for. However, giving them a bit of operatic rubato at the right times makes just about everything manageable :) There are some awkward passages on this that you pulled off very effortlessly, bravo!
Beautiful but why not model the CLARINET etudes on a B flat clarinet and not the bass clari?
My private lesson teacher literally did this to me. He gave me the scales book and then proceeded to play both my solo and one of the rose etudes flawlessly and I- yeah, I just kinda died but now I know why I’ve been told to learn scales my entire life
That was actually hilarious, entertaining, and motivating at the same time! Time to go practice.
You are amazing at identifying the keys!
thank you so much haha !!! learning all my scales for the first time, seems heavy but god its use full.
I use the same finger placements as a Bb soprano clarinet when playing the bass clarinet so I was proud when today I could play the high G (using the octave key that is in the same place as it is on the soprano.) considering I didn’t practice at all unless it was in band class (1 hour every other day) and I couldn’t even play the B last band class. The teacher was telling me to firm my embouchure and put more air into it (for lower notes but it works for higher notes)
#9 is killing me
Any tips?
Let me guess before I watch the whole video. Scales? Ugh I hate practicing scales😠
Like if I should wake up early to get an extra hour of practice before school
👇
I practice scales and arpeggios and thirds and fourths and octaves from first year all to now. Not it’s my 4th year of playing and the foundation that buil for myself helped me a lot on playing Mozart’s clarinet concerto (not on bass clarinet) on bflat clarinet
Do you have any tonguing tricks(improving speed or just tips).
Double tongue. Search it up
+Orlando Rodriguez Learn the multiple tonguings, or just take simple patterns (4 quarters, then 6 quarters as triplets, then 8 eighths, then 12 eighths and so on to sixteenths) start at a slow tempo and play until you you can tongue it perfectly.. Then bump up the metronome by 2 or 5. Do these everyday if possible, or just when you can, the more you practice, the faster you'll get faster
Encouraging....thank you.
Thanks so much for all your videos.. Appreciate all the insight. Quick question how do you keep your 16th notes so even.. I can practice scales all day long, but once I hit a certain speed I notice some fingers are faster than others... Any tips on how to keep fast passages so even?
How do you reach the upper-register so well, it's like the hardest part of playing the bass clarinet
So firstly this comment is obvious - we know you get better if you practice.
Secondly, it's REALLY not useful. Nobody cares about that answer because it doesn't matter.
Too answer the original question; I could write out advice orrrrr rather I could link another EarspasmMusic video;
ua-cam.com/video/DVH4Omq87gA/v-deo.html
Bryce Porter it does matter tho. Literally the only reason people get really good at instruments is because they practice, a lot. You can’t expect to get better if you don’t invest a crazy amount of time
@@8PedroFerreira Yeah but if you don't know what you're practicing...
Mihir Manna dang I wrote that comment a year ago and I was so unwise back then. You’re completely right
One day, I'll be able to play that etude that mediocrely... 😑😑😑
question: How do I develop that speedy coordination among my fingers? Do I simply practice scales as fast as I can (starting out slowly first, of course)?
idk where my teacher found them but he gave me an exercise called 68 mechanisms and it helps with some of the odd patterns
The 68 Mechanism is in the Klose book
Nice stuff. And so true!
Bingo! Also, I have the Gooble Gooble sticker in my office, too :)
Well, maybe add in a dash of legato, phrasing, articulation and humour to Baermann, and Bach, Rose snuck a little of Bach's Violin Partitas into one of his Etudes
Is there a Bhermann kind of book for sax?
scales rock!
Finally, What I have been saying. I'm in Highschool btw, and some grown ass adults haven't figured it out yet.
I usually get a mispitch(squeak) when ever I go from middle bflat to any note from register key e onwards quickly. How do I prevent that?
Dear Michael,
I am curious about the that you are not using your NEW PRIVILEGE? Am I correct? In this video I guess that you are using the new neck.
hey man do you have any tips on playing altissimo better in having some squeaking and the notes not coming out? by the way dude you are the best
Don't know if it is the recording quality or your real sound, but I really find the clarinet sound here way too bright and reedy for my taste, for concert music. I can't hear the beauty in this piece at all. The tone just gets in the way for me.
I am currently on a student model. I am a serious bass clarinet player who has made all state and plan on playing in college. Do you think I should invest in a professional horn now? How different is it playing the two?
Richard Frost Any college that accepts you should have professional level horns for you at the school. I would suggest working on Bb!
Idk if you're still looking or not, but I've heard great things of a brand called Ridenour that makes great basses for around 3 G's, I'm saving for it since I'm also in college and can't afford an 11 thousand dollar horn....
I play a oooold old old bass clarinet, and I can play a good load of scails on them....you make them look sooooo easy how can you do scales like that
Do you know how to play jazz music? I would like to see what happens when you take a solo without reading music!
Great job by the way, you sound awesome!!!
When I say take a solo I mean improvise, reading the music in your head! I'd like to hear what that sounds like. Over any chord progression you like of course
Check the channel my friend. Lots of vids about that!
Maybe you just have too many videos but I could not find anything with you improvising on it! I see videos of you playing other guys solos though
I love your videos!! I play clarinet myself but I didn’t end up going in the collegiate route in college with it. Do you think I’d have any success playing in a classical setting without much collegiate playing?
Janette Adams Sure! Find a nice community band!
so what copy of carl baermann do u have i want to buy it! thnxs
i asked to play the bass clarinet hit my band director said he’s giving it to a seventh grader
:(
I know some young students who are going to be watching this video...
*flips to study 39*
Oh no...
which mouthpiece uses?
I think b 50
Hey so I'm probably dumb asking this but I thought there were only 32 Rose Etudes...please enlighten me
So is that book of 40 like an extended cut or what
There are 72: 40 plus 32.
I laughed my ass off with this dude...But you are right: scales. Take it easy on the ripping of the bass clarinet dude. Better sound is a must.
Damnnnnnnnn
I get moving with the music but you look like ur having a seizure when u do it
Its good crap. :.)
Show us better techniques plz
Too fast !
Coming from someone who once upon a time many years ago was first chair for 5A clarinet at TMEA, I must say: your video is definitely true. However: your approach and your explanation is somewhat rude and NOT conducive to the mind of the developing student; VERY toxic, especially for students who come from underprivileged school backgrounds (like I did). My high school lesson teacher lost ALL her business after she started acting this way with me in lessons. I genuinely didn't appreciate her putting me down for not knowing scales (again, my school district simply just didn't have that fantastic of a music program).
You claim that the etudes are so easy, and while scales are elementary to a performing musician, they most certainly are going to CHALLENGE the developing student. Simply put: your message is without a doubt true, but it is heavily obscured with seasoned arrogance towards the underdeveloped student.
Hey there, have you watched any of my other videos? It's not arrogance, it's snark. Think of it as a no-BS attitude toward learning. There's so much misinformation on UA-cam, I prefer go for the direct approach.
y0shiness Coming from a high school player who was all-state, all-south, and a member of the NASA High School Saxophone Ensemble this past year, I completely agree with everything in this video. It was just a no vs approach, if you do it this was, then the rest is easy, nothing wrong with that.
bud your post is rude.. this guy is great... don't be a douche...