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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 22
- 9 min
steps to better sightreading
Sight-reading - performing a piece having never seen it before - is often the most feared part of any music exam for inexperienced...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 17
- 7 min
five at five
For student clarinettists, Grade 5 is where it starts to get really interesting both in terms of technique and the things we get to play,...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 16
- 1 min
Arrr.
Apparently when you’re nine, turning your teacher into a pirate for your Zoom lesson is the best thing ever. So says clarinet student...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 15
- 12 min
abrsm performance grades - are they worth it?
Recently, ABRSM introduced an alternative exam pathway: the remotely-assessed Performance Grades, some may cynically say to recover lost...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 11
- 1 min
obligatory lockdown quartet video...
Not the tidiest of endings, but who's tidy in lockdown?!
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Eric Whitacre - Sleep
Bass duties with the LGSW Clarinet Choir for the 2020 virtual chamber concert back in November, when they finally let us out to play,...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Brahms. Bass Clarinet. How hard can it be?
Most of the standard classical clarinet repertoire is meant to be performed on the Bb clarinet (and sometimes the A clarinet). But what...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 8
- 1 min
What i Do At The Weekends - by Leese, Aged 46 and a Half
Proof that band music isn’t stuffy and boring – I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this! London Gay Symphonic Winds perform Bowie’s...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Festive Cheer
Bass clarinet duties with London Gay Symphonic Winds at our Christmas concert, performing André Jutras festive medley ‘C’est Noël’. I’m...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 2
- 4 min
it takes two
A few weeks ago during a break in rehearsal, the music director of one of my symphonic wind bands asked me if it would be possible to...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Feb 1
- 5 min
Scales, And Why We Should Love them
Scales. Some love ’em, some hate ’em, and one of the things I get asked most often by my (usually younger) students is “But whyyyyy do I...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Jan 31
- 7 min
Beginning Clarinet Without Breaking The Bank
I received an enquiry today from a potential student who asked me “Do I actually need a clarinet of my own to take lessons?” While the...
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lisadevlinclarinet
- Jan 22
- 11 min
a bass called brenda
In many respects, instruments are a bit like cars. Sometimes they’re simply a tool to get you from A to B – reliable and exactly what you...
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