Author: DougR
Date: 2018-08-26 19:31
Hi Dmax--
welcome back to the fray!
These are all great suggestions, I'm just going to kibitz a little.
You might try finding (if you don't already have in mind) a player who really, really makes you want to practice harder so you can sound like 'that'. (for me it was Benny Goodman when I was a kid; later on it was Paul Meyer and his recording of the French clarinet staples, Debussy, St-Saens, et al.)--a player who gets you actively buzzed about playing (just echoing the idea that 'it should be FUN not work').
As to 'what to practice', a story: I was at an Eddie Daniels clinic in the NYC area some years ago, and in the audience were a raft of studio pros who'd all played with Eddie back when he was local to NYC. At the Q&A someone asked him 'How do you stay in shape?' He responded by playing the beginning C scale in one of the scale sequences in Baermann III, and everyone chuckled out of recognition. We've all played it at one time or another, and I guarantee if you start every practice session with the scale sequence, the thirds exercise, the broken chord tonguing exercise, and the chromatic sequences, NICE and slow, in a month's time you'll have your old mojo back.
The guy I currently study with bought the "Play with a Pro" lesson with Yehuda Gilad, and found it very worthwhile. Something like that you can buy once, and re-watch countless times, and (if you're like me) hear something new with every viewing. I don't know what other top-tier clarinetists have courses on that channel, or similar channels, but it's worth considering.
But that's all just me. There are so many resources out there nowadays (as previously enumerated by our Board colleagues) that you can just go for what floats YOUR boat.
Have fun, congratulations, welcome back!
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