Leon Lester: The Progressing Clarinetist

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@@@ Excercises 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