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In This Issue December 12, 2013
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- A Note From Michelle Anderson - Concerts galore for me this month...
- Free Training - How to improve your altissimo range (those really high notes)
- Michelle Recommends - Jonathan Cohler's new CD - Romanza
- Clarinet Is Easy - Complete how-to lessons for beginners and self-taught intermediate players - December Special - 2 for 1! - Gift a friend with a complete course that helps you (and your friend) to play clarinet more easily, or share this offer with a friend and you can each learn for half price.
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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!
December is a very busy month for most musicians, and feels especially busy for me this year. I have a concert virtually every weekend. It is all fun, but it is keeping me busy preparing a variety of music. My newsletter is much later than usual this time around, and I apologize for that (and thanks to those of you who wrote to see if I was OK!). I recently played in a great concert with the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble (where the audience got to vote on their favorite pieces to select the playlist), as well as Christmas at the Chan Centre which features several very talented local choirs, and children's choirs. I still have some holiday concerts left with Nutcracker music, vocalists, dancers, audience sing-alongs and all kinds of holiday cheer. Then I'll be ready for a holiday as we go off to visit family in many states and provinces for a couple of weeks.
Whatever holidays you celebrate, I wish you all the best with you and your loved ones. I hope there is some great music as part of your gatherings. If you are a relatively inexperienced player and have been considering trying out the Clarinet Is Easy course, check out the great offer down below that allows you to gift the course to a friend.
Thanks for being in my community!
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Free Training - Extreme High Notes - improve your altissimo register
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Probably the question I am most asked is "How can I improve my high notes?". I do have several videos on YouTube related to this, but some of my original ones were recorded on older technology and I know that on some computer systems the audio is quite low. My goal is to redo all of these older videos with my updated sound system so that you can listen more easily.
Today's free training focuses on the altissimo register, or those high notes above high C. Some of this material has been presented before, but if you are looking to improve that range in your own clarinet playing, I recommend you try out the exercise in this video.
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: Jonathan Cohler's new CD - Romanza
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Jonathan Cohler is a fine clarinetist who has created many recordings of excellent clarinet repertoire. His latest CD, Romanza, features some very lyrical clarinet playing with the pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite. The CD features music by Schumann, Prokofiev and Guastavino.
It is well recorded and performed with fine musicianship. Jonathan also writes some of the best and most comprehensive program notes that I have ever seen in a CD. A CD with 4 titles comes with over 30 pages of liner notes, and they are very interesting to those of you like to know about the history of a composition and its composer.
If you click on the image of the CD above, you can hear some sound samples.
Jonathan is also running a special promotion to help fund his next CD, with partial proceeds going to victims of the Boston Marathon Tragedy. The link for this great crowd sourced funding project is: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/5Uui7
As is usual with these projects there are many perks for your various levels of contribution. If you fund the project at $25, you will receive and autographed copy of the Romanza CD above, and you will receive and autographed copy of the next CD when it is available. A great deal!
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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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December Special - 10 Week Video Course - "2 for 1" Give a gift to a friend, or share the cost, and have a buddy to play with! (see details below)
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).
December Special - Clarinet Is Easy 2 for 1 Have you been interested this course which gives you hours of video lessons to help you play clarinet more easily? Do you play in a band with other clarinetists who might also benefit from a series of video lessons? Here is your chance to share the learning, and support each other by reinforcing these good habits together as you make music. Anyone who signs up for Clarinet Is Easy during December can gift the course to a friend. Simply send me an email with your name and email once you have registered, and include the name and email of your clarinet-playing friend. I will enrol them in the course for free. Please let me know if this is a surprise gift to them, and if you want your name acknowledged when I send them their registration information. Likewise, you can share the cost, and have one of you enrol as a regular student, and I will set up the second person at no charge. Existing students can share this offer as well, just send me a note.
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.
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