Complete Method for Clarinet: Third Division [Paperback]

Carl Baermann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1943

Complete Method for Clarinet – Third Division – The Series, as a whole, is designed to encourage students to achieve proper hand and body positions, strong finger technique, agility and proper breathing habits. Each study focuses on a particular challenge.

Product Details

• Paperback: 55 pages
• Publisher: Carl Fischer Music Dist (January 1943)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825802156
• ISBN-13: 978-0825802157
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an awesome collection of method exercises, April 30, 2000

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The basis of all classical clarinet playing is knowing your scales. Not just knowing how to play each major scale but understanding the various permutations of all of the major and minor and chromatic scales. You need to have these drilled into your brain and your fingers backwards and forwards inside out and upside down until you don't have to think at all about them. They just will flow effortlessly out of your horn.

To learn how to do this, I highly recommend this collection of exercises. I started using it when I was in the 8th grade and I continued to practice out of it daily until I finished my collegiate playing days. When I decide to return to the clarinet (I am on an extended hiatus), this will be the method book I use to get back into the instrument.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Scale Studies, June 10, 2009

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The third volume of the Baermann Method is perfect for daily warm-up and scale practice. This book covers all of the major and minor keys in all three registers. Studies include broken chords, interrupted scale patterns, the chromatic scale, and interval studies, most with tonguing variations.

Unlike the combined edition of the first and second divisions, this division has a saddle stitch binding so that it lays flat on your music stand.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply a must, February 4, 2011

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There's not much to say that hasn't already been said about Baermann's Third Division. It is a necessary book to work from. Stranded on a desert island with only your clarinet and one method book, this would be the one to have. If you ever mastered it, you might consider yourself a fairly good player.