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It Ain't Necessarily So - solo clarinet arr. Davies & Harris

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By request, I've put together a video of It Ain't Necessarily So, a song from Gershwin's opera, Porgy and Bess. My understanding is that this is from the Easy Gershwin for Clarinet arr. Davies & Harris, which is currently a grade 4 ABRSM clarinet piece. Sorry, it's a long video again because I got too carried away, so here's some chapters to help find your way. 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Play through 0:55 Thoughts on the time signature and triplets 3:34 Let's play those triplets 4:01 About subdivisions 5:50 Some figuring technique - C to A and back again 7:08 The Allegro giocoso section - subdivide those semi-quavers 7:39 Allegro giocoso - slowly 7:58 Getting the rhythms "perfect" 8:34 A note about accents 9:35 Some figuring technique - Bb to C 11:39 Some comments on tonguing speed 12:24 The semi-quaver, quaver, semi-quaver rhythm 13:47 Tempo I - comments about phrasing and shape 16:20 Lead into Bar 31, then some comments about Eb fingering, airflow (singing) and reed strength 17:31 Lead into Bar 31 (again) - comments about subdivision 18:40 Finishing off - the concluding phrase 20:38 Cut time and how it changes things 22:23 Adding some decorations (stretch goal) 25:16 Vibrator (stretch goal) 27:36 Outro

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