"Step Away From The G" Exercise

Really makes me think about tongue placement and air direction!

Very good exercise.

I’ve incorporated this into my warmup. I use both long tones and shorter notes with various articulations, with a view towards tone and intonation.

If I hadn't been playing for 62 years I might say amazeballs. But for me I have done so many similar things over the years I wasn't thrilled. I would tell my young students about it and encourage them to use it. I liked the Brahms 3, 2nd Mvt for lyricism.

Great warm-up exercise

I've been working on your exercise sheet of "Stepping away from the G". It's helping me a lot with voicing, especially as the intervals widen. Thanks, Mike.

I like it a lot.

It's quality.

Highly recommend.

Great fingering exercise for the clarinet.

It made me work on other aspects of playing that I had never considered.

This is a nice, structured way to warm up and work on leaps before attempting the Brahms excerpt.

Super helpful thank you so much!

It's great! Do it everyday!

Great supplement to my warmups/daily exercises.

For me, "Step Away from the G– is a daily warmup. Not only for long tone work on sound, but importantly for sight-singing as well. First hear the interval, then play it honing in on accuracy and consistency of sound, and tone evenness throughout the intervals. The next day, choose a different starting note and again work your way to the upper and lower octaves sight-singing and matching tone quality as you go. As a novice bass clarinet player, this has been a great way to get baptized.

The Step Away From the G exercise is great! It is also free. Why would you skip out on getting it?

Excellent warmup! No longer just playing one note until you run out of breath while thinking of something else! Use these to focus on one aspect of your playing at a time -Embouchure, tone quality, intonation, etc.

Very helpful...

It is very useful, I always play it before when I feel tension in my shoulder or in my throat and this happen quite frequently. I play always also your long tone exercise but i can't play so slowly as 60 bpm.

Thanks very much got your help

Roberta

Very useful to put into practice the idea of air stream = sound. Building a thread that connects notes across the break

Great warmup exercises

a very useful exercise, have added it to my warmup rotation

As someone who is new to bass clarinet and beginning to doubt I would reach those "highs", I've found this a useful exercise to work on my technique and it's paying dividends.

This wonderful worksheet helps solve a specific problem and includes a famous orchestral excerpt to apply the concept. But that's not all folks!!--there's also a video to show you how to do it right! Brilliant strategy and execution, just as would be expected from Earspasm! I incorporate it into my daily routine, right after long tones.

Love the "Step Away from the G– exercise! Super helpful and fun to play! Thanks Michael!

The exercise step away from the G help a lot keep an even sound below and above the infamous break.