A few scales and some of Saint Saens' Sonata. Only about 20 minutes but then I heard banging from next door, I could be wrong but I sensed that it was directed at me so I stopped and the banging stopped. I hate living here, there are so many people to annoy.

Have done practice of lesson pieces and some 'jumping between notes' practice as suggested by teacher to help with the Lefevre. I really need to work on the higher notes....

Nothing yet.
Not sure if I can get my head round anything resembling practice today but will make the effort and try to do some playing on both instruments.

Hymns at church for Palm Sunday. The processional really didn't work, but people didn't seem to mind

Ebay!! I thought that someone, somewhere, must have arranged them for sax, so I searched Google and it came up with this link
or Boosey's have the book as well: here's the link for that

They use the entire range of the sax - and in the transcription of the sixth suite: 'it is assumed that the player has full control of the upper altissimo register up to C' - that's the C above high F, which I didn't know was possible on the sax and I'm not even going to try

Warmed up with a bit of Senaille's Allegro and Spiritoso

Then Kloze Grand Fantasia no 2 - Romance an Variations

and Kloze Grand Fantasia 7

Thank you I'm totally in love with the 1st suite!
I'm going to learn them, but I'll have to restrain myself until after grade 8 because I'll get totally distracted
(it's not that long to go now - eek!)
That's frightening - I had no idea the sax could go that high! Don't think the neighbours would appreciate me attempting that!

been through my parts for band on Thursday and done some more work on Lefevre Sonata 3. New clari sounding goooooood

scales, scales and scales....
in 3s and 4s

Chords, 7ths and Dim 7ths and 6ths

Keys of

C - 2 octaves,
G - 3 octaves,
F - 3 octaves ,
E - 3 octaves,
B - 2 octaves
F# - 3 octaves
C# - 2 octaves

And left it at that tonight - wrist still a bit achey ...

I highly recommend A, three octaves...

Mmm I could do that and in fact have done previously but not with all the extra bits with it. Might add that to the list ....

I've done a lot of work on flat keys so teach now has me doing the sharp ones.

DawnF's impressive scale list shamed me into trying out some scales in thirds , which I usually manage to forget to do (never mind fourths!)... didn't get beyond the first two - had to give up before suicide was the only honourable option

I did once try Ab three octaves on the oboe (to try and dispel trauma about more reasonable altissimo notes).
Ouch!!!

Brief flit yesterday through some technical exercises and work on the beginning of Telemann Fantasia No.2

You are more than ready to add As (and, for that matter G#s/Abs) to your listings, Dawn

I've played scales and a Garibaldi study trying to concentrate on breathing and dynamics.Im looking at Mozart, Andante In C ,trying to work out the rhythm.Its in 2/4 time ,with lots of quavers,semi and demi semi and Im really not sure how best to go about working this out.I understand the value of each note but am struggling to understand where the beat falls within the bar!!Dont know If i'm explaining this that well but if anyone has any ideas as to how to clear my "fog"...advice(polite!!!) gratefully received.

Ive just had another session on Trygve Madsens Preludes and Fugues (Like No 1 in Gr8 syllabus). I can probably play 9 or 10 of the 24 preludes but only 4 fugues ! The Preludes are not just more 'approachable' to play, but some are really nice pieces (a few of you will know no 1 by now) also 3, 6, 7, 16, 24 to pick a few. Maybe I will do some next forum event I attend.

That'd be good

You might want to let the pianists know too, this is Viva Woodwind (sorry!!!)

Got carried away playing from the Langey book, been playing exercises with (my) top E in them eventually got round to what I should have been doing too

Is that three leger line E, Louise?

The E above that one requires barry-clari to use a fingering chart to check the fingering...

It is Barry F is the highest I've got so far, but don't dare look at those exercises yet, F's are very hit and miss at the mo

Oops sorry, Ive posted on here before and not realised !
Wish I did play woodwind though !

Fair enough! Would imagine it won't be long before you're there consistently though.



Never too late!

Nice to see you pop in here, fsharpminor!

It's easy to do - there's that thread on Adult Learners with a similar title...

No scales today. Life's been rather hectic today and I've only just sat down .....

managed just a half hour tonight so had a play through of my pieces for tomorrows lesson.

Haydn Sonata No.42 in G Major , I learned it in just two days! Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbBzGi1-Gc8...nel_video_title

You've got fsharpminor-itis! This is Viva Woodwind, good though the video is!

New bit of Lefevre and new bits of Mozart, plus some studies from new book

Nice book, isn't it? Got nice orange stripes on it

Ah, THAT book.....
Not done anything from that for some time.

No. 46 was my grade 8 study...

*resists the urge to go and take a look*
Would take up too much energy as I sit here debating whether to try to do some clari practice in my hour at home between services or to put the kettle on and brew up.

I would say it depends on how tired you're feeling. Tired practice won't be good practice.

Brewed up.
Will do the practice this afternoon if we don't get a visit from offspring.

Sounds like you're being sensible, sbhoa.

How did you know that? Yes it is a good book Number 46 is a long way off for me

P.S. hope you're enjoying your tea sbhoa

You'll probably get to 46 sooner than you currently imagine. That book is probably the most battered in my collection but as it contained the studies I did for every grade I took it was great value for money.

I think it was no 12 for G4, the tarentella at about no 26 for G5 something about 32ish for G6 and no 48 for G8.

The one that always got me in that book was no. 47...

Oooooh - are we talking THE orange book? My absolute favourite - go back to it again and again! Takes me back to my school days! Can't play no. 47 though!!

Never mind 47, anything after page 7 looks

I've not done many studies. They tend to get chosen when a particular issue shows itself.

The Pamela Weston, yes

Oooh but these are just really nice studies to play - lots of Demnitz, Lefevre, Klose et al! I love this book and highly recommend it! Even though it gets impossibly tricky towards the end!

I believe you.
It's the sort of thing I do when I'm told to.

The last study in there I don't think is the hardest : there's a lot of flexibility there. In my opinion, numbers 46 and 47 are trickier...

About to squeeze in a very quick clarinet practise and am going to see if I can stumble my way through either one of these. If I were being sensible I would simply take your word for it, Barry but now I'm curious!

What book is this, of which you speak? Does it have a title as well as a colour?

Go for it : you'll never know unless you try. 46 I did for grade 8 (which I think I said somewhere above...)



50 Classical Studies, collated by Pamela Weston.

Ah-ha, thank you. I have never seen it. I have 5o Melodious studies by Pamela Weston, though and I use it quite a lot.

Well, well worth getting : I use it a lot, and I use it with pupils too.

Thank you for the reccommendation.

Well, as expected, I can report back that all three are way beyond me at the moment! If I had to put them in the order which I would find most difficult, I would say 50 as the most difficult, followed by 46 and then 47 - dare I say that discounting the key signature, this one didn't look quite as challenging as the other two. That said, when I last played from this book, I was stuck firmly at number 31 and that hasn't changed!

I seem to remember that I was struggling with number 23 about a year or so ago (the one with the staccato octave leaps) but am pleased to say that this one was much better when I played it just now.

Clarimoo, it's a lovely book - not sure whether much of it would be too easy for you but you might like to use it for warm ups and certainly the latter pages I think are grade 8 and beyond! I must look out for 50 Melodious Studies - have to say that I wasn't aware of its existence!