Chapter 4 Reading the Language of Music

Chapter 4 "Reading the Language of Music"

Watercolor Cover Illustration: Ralph Schwartz

Build your “vocabulary” in the language of music with the wealth of music reading material in this chapter.
Develop your playing potential with 24 flowing major scale patterns inspired by H. L. Clarke’s Technical Studies.
Increase your ability to read flowing scale patterns within a modal expression.
Reduce hesitancy in reading and blowing as key signatures are solely represented by accidentals.
Become fluent in these 24 patterns and they will enable you to read most flowing music with ease.
“Articulation de jour” includes suggestions as well as encouragement to develop your own tonguing and slurring options.

Flowing Scale Patterns #1-24

Chapter 4 contains 328 pages of flowing major scale patterns that are presented in all keys.
Most patterns span 1-2 octaves and include the bugle concept of applying power (blowing faster) to ascend and relax (blow slower) to descend.
Within each Flowing Scale Pattern, there are typically 15 exercises that modulate by ascending half-steps.
Patterns 1-6 begin with a small range of notes and expand to the range of a scale. Phrases are ascending and descending in turning phrases.
Patterns 7-9 extend a few notes beyond the scale. This section begins with shorter patterns and culminates with longer and more challenging breath control patterns.
Patterns 10-12 expand the range to two octaves and longer phrasing.
Patterns 13-18 add rhythmic variety to the two octave + exercises. All begin with ascending lines and include descending lines.
Pattern 19 is similar to Pattern 17, but begins with descending lines.
Patterns 20-24 present the culmination of the previous studies by applying patterns 1-19 within the exercises.

Flowing Major Scales # 1-24