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Topic: Intermediate pieces with leaps that require arm use?  (Read 1860 times)

Offline clarinetist

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Intermediate pieces with leaps that require arm use?
on: July 31, 2016, 05:38:39 PM
I've just finished the Bach Two-Part Invention #1 and am slowly learning #13. I'd like to supplement this with a piece that requires leaps larger than an octave in BOTH HANDS that would be doable at my level, preferably something that tests hand independence like the Two-Part Inventions.

Does any such repertoire exist?
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Re: Intermediate pieces with leaps that require arm use?
Reply #1 on: July 31, 2016, 08:02:02 PM
Hi clarinetist,

I think you should play Liszt's La Campanella it's really a cool piece!

Just joking.... I wish I would be able to play that piece. Those are insane leaps right there.

I don't know of any piece around the level of Bach inventions that has gigantic leaps.... Maybe someone else can give you a better answer.
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Re: Intermediate pieces with leaps that require arm use?
Reply #2 on: July 31, 2016, 08:06:03 PM
Quote from: 109natsu on July 31, 2016, 08:02:02 PM
Hi clarinetist,

I think you should play Liszt's La Campanella it's really a cool piece!

Just joking.... I wish I would be able to play that piece. Those are insane leaps right there.

I don't know of any piece around the level of Bach inventions that has gigantic leaps.... Maybe someone else can give you a better answer.
Haha. I laughed. I actually thought of that piece at first... but I agree with you, it's way above my current level.
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Re: Intermediate pieces with leaps that require arm use?
Reply #3 on: August 07, 2016, 02:41:29 PM
Hi!

You might want to try out Gymnopedie no.1 by Eric Satie :)

It has some pretty big leaps.

https://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/ea/IMSLP136039-WIMA.f2cd-Satie_Gymnopedie_3.pdf
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Re: Intermediate pieces with leaps that require arm use?
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Re: Intermediate pieces with leaps that require arm use?
Reply #5 on: August 08, 2016, 04:55:24 PM
Quote from: swagner on August 07, 2016, 02:41:29 PM
Hi!

You might want to try out Gymnopedie no.1 by Eric Satie :)

It has some pretty big leaps.

https://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/ea/IMSLP136039-WIMA.f2cd-Satie_Gymnopedie_3.pdf
I've already learned that piece, but thank you.
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