Progressing Clarinetist - Lester - Carl Fischer O4766

A collection of etudes based on the works of Sigmund Hering, of intermediate difficulty.

Table of Contents

• Rudiments of Music
• How to Care for the Clarinet
• The Reed
• The Mouthpiece
• The Position of the Hands on the Clarinet
• The Playing Position
• The Embouchure
• Staccati and Attack
• Clarinet Fingering Chart
• Quarter Notes, Half Notes, Whole and Half Rests
• Half-Steps (Chromatic Scale); two short pieces
• The Whole Note; three short pieces
• Dotted Half Notes; Three Quarter Time; two short pieces
• Common Time; two short pieces
• Quarter Notes, Scale and Skipwise; one short piece
• The Slur; Exercises for the Right and Left small fingers; two short pieces
• Alla Breve; Two-Half Time
• The Register Change
• Eighth Notes; one short piece
• Eighth Notes, continued; Eighth Rests; two short pieces
• Three-Eighth Time; Mechanisms
• Dotted Quarter and Eighth Notes; two short pieces
• Three Short Solos; one short duet
• Chromatic Scales - Broken Chords
• Staccato - Attack and Release; one short piece
• Studies in G Major; one short duet
• Studies in Articulation; one short duet
• Six-Eighth Time; two short duets
• Studies in F Major; one short duet
• Studies in Enharmonic Passages; one short duet
• Studies in Intervals; one short duet
• Studies in D Major; one short duet
• Triplets; one short duet
• Sixteenth Notes; two short pieces
• Two Duets
• Mechanisms in D Major; one short duet
• Studies in Bb Major; two short pieces
• Nine-Eighth and Twelve-Eight Time; two short pieces
• Mechanisms in Bb Major; two short pieces
• Studies in A Major
• Studies in Crescendo and Decrescendo
• Two Duets
• Dotted Eighth Notes followed by Sixteenths; two short pieces
• Syncopation
• Two Short Duets
• Review of Major Scales - Relative Minor Scales