Benny Goodmans Clarinet Method

Benny Goodmans Clarinet Method ** Written by Benny Goodman. Instructional book for solo clarinet. 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. With standard notation, instructional text, illustrations and introductory text. (Instructional and Jazz.)

This book, written by Benny Goodman himself, has been out of print for many years. It teaches the beginning student clarinet tone, style, technique and musicianship. It covers such basics as assembling and tuning the clarinet, proper position, scales, expression and many exercises. Features 11 tunes, including biography of his career up to 1940 is also included.

Contents: Assembling the Clarinet * Breakfast Feud * Breath Control * Chromatic Scale * Clarinade * Cocoanut Grove * Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes, Studies on the... * Embouchure * Expression * Expression Markings * Expression, Studies In * Fifths, Studies In * First Tones to be Practiced * Fourths, Studies In * Gone With What Draft * Grand Slam * Im Here * Intervals, Studies in * Mechanism, Exercises On * Metronome * Modern Studies In Rhythm * Octaves, Studies In * Oomph Fah Fah * Rhythmic Staccato Studies * Rhythmic Studies in Various Keys and Time Signatures * Rhythmic Studies of the Sixteenth Note * Rhythmic Technical Exercises * Rhythms, Modern Studies In * Scales * Scarecrow * Sevenths, Major and Minor * Shivers * Six Appeal * Sixths, Studies In * Slipped Disc * Staccato Studies * Studies on the Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes * Synopation, Exercises On * Technical Exercises, Rhythmic * Thirds, Studies In * Tongue Action * Tuning the Clarinet * Varied Rhythms and Syncopation * Vibrato.