Study Intensive: Cavallini No 2. — WEEK ONE

Get out your fur coats and wax your moustaches - it’s time for Cavallini!

I’m going to be doing a livestream workshop on October 22 on how to practice this study - get out your clarinet and join along (you can also watch it after the fact). 

To get the best possible start with this study I have a few recommendations:

• Focus your attention on page 1 this week
• Play through slowly, and highlight the most difficult passages - I would literally mark these with a highlighter so that I can give them extra attention and even use separate metronome markings for those particularly tricky bars
• Gradually raise your metronome mark over the week
• Practice passages in both legato and with the slur two-tongue one pattern - make sure you are breathing through the phrases as much as possible. As ever, it doesn’t hurt to practice a bit in a forte dynamic to really get the air going!

Post your first week video (all of page 1 if you can) by Sunday for encouragement and helpful feedback from me and the rest of the community 🤩