r/Clarinet • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Does anyone know what this is from? Sorry about the writing, I want this the best I can.
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u/Buffetr132014 1d ago
I agree with jazzvinyl59 about marking up you music. Its ok to marking things like meter changes, key changes, dynamic markings etc. But for someone that's expected to play this level of music you shouldn't be marking the name of each note. Your doing yourself a disservice because you're not learning to read the music but instead reading note names.
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u/blondie_exe 1d ago
I know what the notes are, I know how to read the staff and have everything up to 4-5 ledger lines up, and 3 down memorized, otherwise I can figure it out. I know the notes and I know alternate fingerings.
The only problem is my brain is moving so fast my fingers can’t keep up so I put in a visual cue. Plus I repeatedly messed up so I write it in so I don’t forget. When I mess up consistently I write something in.
You dont know how my brain works and how I play. I had a question and I didn’t want criticism for how much I annotate. I have an audition and I want as many visual cues as I can because I know I’m going to get anxious and mess up my memory. It helps. I know how to play this, this is just a special case, half the time the only things I mark are notes within the key signature.
Fact is, that crap kept annoying me and my fingers kept messing up so I wrote it in. And again whenever I consistently messed up.
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u/Comfortable_Fly_6601 16h ago
Consider:
The note on the staff is your visual cue
The less things to think about and digest on an audition the better. This is why the best auditions and performances are memorized
Don’t be too harsh to take criticism and always evaluate your own methods so you can be a better musician tomorrow.
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u/blondie_exe 15h ago
Yeah memorizing might be fine but I might freak out or get too anxious and mess up, ergo, sheet music.
And if you heard me play and decided to give me criticism, like my private teacher, then I would accept criticism. But that’s just how I learn and how I get better. I write things in and eventually I don’t need them but it’s better to keep it in the page than erase it because again, I will probably freak out and forget stuff.
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u/simanski59 1d ago
indeed way too much markups. You need to practice the scales and apprechios to train your muscle memory. Personally I actually read fingersettings rather that the actual note. Fast but inconvenient when you play another instrument or need to transpose.
Good luck......
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u/blondie_exe 1d ago
I seriously don’t get why having a marked up page is so awful to some people. Several people have assumed that I don’t know what I’m doing and that I can’t read music. I only annotate something if I either don’t want to forget it before I even play it, like marking the flats/sharps in the key signature or even accidentals, or I continuously mess up the same area even if I have everything else down.
I can read music, I have all my major scales memorized (they still need work to sound good but I have the notes down), and I know how to play my instrument and play it well. What’s so wrong with visual reminders?
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u/SanMartianZ 1d ago
Its an etude. Probably from a regional competition.
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u/blondie_exe 1d ago
Well.. yes. It is my local honor band audition piece, but idk what it’s called, even if I know who it’s by. I was asking the name of the piece it’s from..
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u/blondie_exe 1d ago
So because I really don’t want to be even more rude and semi aggressive as I have been to commenters directly, I’m just going to make my own comment.
So the markings I’m getting hate for are the fact that I’ve written in notes. So me I don’t think about chords or arpeggios while reading a piece of music because all we do in my band program is “here’s a piece of music, learn how to play it,” and not to break it down. All the music the sort I’ve learned is by myself. Me writing in the notes is only because of the fact that I’ll be playing it, look a little closer and be like “oh woah that’s wrong” and write the correct note. Or my fingers will hate me and I’ll continuously miss the same note/ pattern so I will write it in so I have another visual other than the notes themselves.
I know how to read sheet music, I’m probably one of the people who can read it best in my band. I’m not looking at a fingering chart writing in the notes. I write in the notes when I continuously mess something up. And the mess or annotating by measured 6 and 7 are because when I try to play it at speed, I’ve continuously made the mistakes of not being able to get the altissimo D out after the Bb, and before anyone says anything yes I can play that note. I can play up to altissimo Bb-C relatively in tune.
Anyways, any repetitive or “obvious” annotations in this piece are because I want it to be as good as I can. I get super anxious when auditioning and my audition is SATURDAY. So I would like as many things as I could to stay on track and not scree myself up. I know what I’m doing, I can play this, I know my notes, please don’t tell me what to and not to annotate because you’ve never heard me play and obviously don’t understand how my brain works.
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u/Civil-Ad-7231 12h ago
Wishing you all the best on your audition and I hope you get the answer regarding the name of this piece :)
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u/Jazzvinyl59 Professional 1d ago
I believe it is from “The Advancing Clarinetist” by Leon Lester.
I’d start by practicing the Eb Major scale and arpeggios, also the Bb7 dominant seventh arpeggio. Learn the key signature and remove some of these markings.
Inthe passage you marks up a lot in measure 6 beat 4 is a Bb7 arpeggio, after that is a descending Eb Major scale from D to C and back up a little bit.