Clarinet Workout: a framework for practicing, Revised 2022

From The Clarinet Magazine: Inspired by his clarinet study with Leon Russianoff from 1970 to 1977 and reflecting his decades of teaching and working as a professional clarinetist, Steven Klimowski’s Clarinet Workout could also be titled “A Practical Method to Develop the Technique and Method to Play Anything!” At least, that is my impression of the careful pedagogy Klimowski shares in his five-page introduction, with detailed suggestions of how to use the 71 pages of exercises utilizing every major and minor key (harmonic minor). The student is well-advised to strongly consider Klimowski’s “routines,” as they importantly teach how to practice any technical challenge. With equal parts awareness training and the concept of “divide and conquer,” Clarinet Workout uses a combination of exercises most closely aligned with the J.B. Albert 24 Scales and Exercises but also includes elements from Baermann’s Complete Method, Third Division, with the inclusion of exercises on dominant seventh chor