Texas Bandmasters Association
Bandmasters Review • June 2013
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For advanced students, a “tuning chart” can be
developed and used with the student in lesson and
practice. Work with the student to chart the pitch
tendencies of the instrument on every note at two or
three different dynamics. Tuning tendencies will change
based on type and brand of instrument, mouthpiece,
reed, and ligature, and barrel length and taper.
Venting or dampening fingerings can also be
used to develop further flexibility in technique and
intonation adjustment. Explore the use of the right
and left hands in resonance fingerings for throat tone
notes: G2, G#2, A2, and A#2.
If you have any specific questions, Beth Fabrizio can
be reached at
bfabrizio@hilton.k12.ny.us
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Upgrade Your Ensemble by Strengthening Your Clarinet Sect ion
Beth A. Fabrizio has been a public school band director in New
York for twenty-eight years, and has taught clarinet privately for
thirty-three years. In addition, she is an active guest conductor
and clinician and frequent drum corps competition judge. Her feld
experience, paired with her conservatory clarinet training with noted
pedagogues Stanley Hasty (Eastman School of Music), Michael
Webster, and Richard Waller, has given her great insight into teaching
clarinet effectively in the school setting.