Free Chromatic Scales for Clarinet

Video Transcript

" For expertvillage.com this is Mitch Kaplan. In this clip we will be talking about scales and why they are really very important. The first reason why they are important is because it actually develops your technique and your sound. Another part of the reason why it is so important is because it enhances your knowledge and your ability to read music. There are several different types of scales, there is the chromatic scale, which is simply half steps, going up and down the clarinet… The next type of scale is a major scale, a major scale is comprised of two whole steps, a half step, three more whole steps and then another half step, and this is how you would play a major scale… One could use the whole register of the instrument, and that would increase of course the technique that they could have. So doing a major scale two octaves, this would be the F major scale on the clarinet… The next type of scale, there is what is known as the minor. The natural minor is similar to the major scale, but it is down a minor third and that means going down three half steps. Now the minor scale sounds sadder than the major scale, the major scale kind of sounds like a happy sound, whereas the minor is a more sadder more melancholy type of sound, this is a minor scale… You can hear the sadness in the sound, and that is because of the lowered third and the lowered sixth. "