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In This Issue September 20, 2013
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- A Note From Michelle Anderson - Musical Spelling, and, your Skype lesson form perhaps didn't work if you sent one to me and haven't heard back yet...
- Free Training - A practise tool to help you find expression in melodies that leap around
- Michelle Recommends - Robert Marcellus recording of Mozart Clarinet Concerto
- Clarinet Is Easy - Complete how-to lessons for beginners and self-taught intermediate players
- From The Clarinet Mentors Community - World Clarinet Alliance
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A Note from Michelle Anderson
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Hello!
Welcome to the Clarinet Mentors bi-weekly newsletter. I welcome new readers to the Clarinet Mentors community, and I hope that you enjoy the clarinet knowledge that is shared here. Feel free to comment on any of the videos on the YouTube page, or by sending me an email. My goal is to continue to make life easier for clarinetists all around the world!
I experienced yet another "magic power" of music this week. My son who is in the 2nd grade, has had some spelling tests at school. He is pretty good at it, but there are a couple of tricky words to learn. His teacher found out that he likes to sing, and suggested that he spell out the letters of tricky words to a familiar tune (sort of like E-I-E-O-U. Many of you will have a tune in your head just from saying those letters). It was really fun. A five letter word can be sung to EIEOU, and it just makes the letters easier to remember. Now, if only I had really catchy tunes for those 10 letter words that I always misspell. I'll have to work on that, but for now, I am grateful for the help that my computer gives me!
I had sent out an email last week offering some video Skype lessons to anyone who would like a one-on-one 30-minute Skype lesson with me. I did this first of all because it is fun to meet you (even through the computer), and secondly, it always gives me great ideas for new videos. The downside to my technology is that I have discovered that the web form that I sent out is not working correctly, and I don't know how to fix it quickly. If you did send me some possible lesson times and you haven't heard back from me, I likely did not hear from you. Please email me directly (although you can check this link for some possible available times before you email me -http://www.clarinetmentors.com/styled-5/index.html) and we'll try again.
Have a great week, and thanks for being a part of my community!
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Free Training - A Practise Technic to Discover the Beautiful Music Within Those Tricky Large Intervals
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Today's free training deals with a similar challenge to last newsletter, but provides a different approach and has a different purpose. Last newsletter we looked at high notes that came out of nowhere, and discussed how to play them with more control and familiarity. Today, I want to give you a practise tool to use either if the music has big leaps within a melodic line (like Brahms Sonatas, or Weber Concerto #2 opening, or Semper Fidelis...), or if the entire melody is too high to feel comfortable with.
This practise tool basically reduces all of the leaps into one, easy octave, and makes the music feel far less scary. Once our brain is no longer scared, it is much easier to find the beautiful phrase that may have been lurking within those scary notes! This is one of my favourite technics for releasing the expressivity of tougher phrases with my students. I hope that you enjoy it too!
As always, I enjoy hearing from you, so please add your comments in the comments box below the video on YouTube, or send me an email. Click on the video image below to watch this video lesson.
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Michelle Recommends: Robert Marcellus performing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra
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Robert Marcellus, who for years was the principal clarinetist with the Cleveland Orchestra, was also one of the most influential teachers of his time. In fact, most of my main teachers were all students of Mr. Marcellus. His recording of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto is worth listening for all clarinetists who loves a simple, pure and beautiful sound. I don't know if this recording is still available on CD, but there are used ones around, and it is downloadable through mainstream services such as iTunes and Amazon. It remains a great demonstration of mastering all of the basic technics that make playing clarinet sound effortless. I hope you enjoy it! (I'd love to hear what your favorite recordings are.)
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Clarinet Is Easy - Your Step-by-Step Beginner Course - Now Available! (Also enjoyed by many intermediate level players)
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How To Solve Your Common Clarinet Frustrations and Play Clarinet More Easily
I firmly believe that if anyone has the "recipe" for how to play clarinet, things are really relatively easy to do. Most of our frustrations come from inadvertently learning bad habits along the way. With that in mind, I have created for you a 10-lesson comprehensive course for beginners (and self-taught intermediate players) that gives you the tools to truly learn the clarinet easily, while avoiding all of the most common frustrations that can plague us. I believe that these lessons can save you hours of grief by giving you the best practise systems that have worked for hundreds of clarinetists. The lessons have great content, and are presented in a video format so that you can watch them again and again. If you would like to play with more ease and have a clear understanding of the fundamentals of clarinet playing, you can get more information on the Clarinet Is Easy course here (including some free preview videos):
Click here for the free preview videos to Clarinet Is Easy
If you are curious about this, you can try these lessons with a 100% 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee . (That means that you can try a full 5 lessons before you decide if you have received great value from the course.) If it is not the right style for you, you get your tuition refunded, no problem. I invite you to try it now! Many students have received amazing results so far from this course (and you can read their comments on the order page).
Michelle Anderson, the founder of Clarinet Mentors, is a professional clarinetist and teacher who currently lives in Vancouver BC. Her professional career spans 30 years and she currently plays regularly with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the West Coast Chamber Music series. She has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Touring Orchestra and many other groups. Michelle currently specializes in teaching adults to play clarinet more easily and quickly through online resources, and conducts the Vancouver Clarinet Choir.
Thanks for reading this biweekly newsletter.
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