Bumblebee Loops : A Practice Guide to Performing a Lightning Fast Flight of the Bumblebee

Bumblebee Loops is a new clarinet/flute/violin method book to guide and improve your speed and musicality on the solo The Flight of the Bumblebee, but goes deeper to help you work out and improve the sound and artistry of any musical passage. Bumblebee Loops serves up tips and hundreds of bite-sized musical excerpts to help you:

• Identify messy and uneven intervallic and rhythmical flaws
• Increase your focus and practice discipline
• Execute smooth, clean, fast, elegant technique that blossoms musicality
• Apply these tools to any tough musical passage

By the end of Bumblebee Loops, you'll understand the importance of focus, persistence, and take the right steps toward becoming a total musician.

Add this book to your library of Klose, Rose, Opperman, and Rubank clarinet method books. For flutists add this book to your collection of the Brooke, Moyse, Wye, and Bennett flute sheet music. Violinists include with your library of violin books by Franz Wohlfahrt, scales studies by Carl Flesch, Kreutzer 42 Studies or Caprices, and other violin practice music.

CHRISTOPHER D. JONES is a 26-year clarinetist with the West Point Band and adjunct professor of clarinet at Nyack College. The author of the Clarinet-Now website holds Master's of Music degrees in Clarinet Performance and Conducting from New Mexico State University and a Bachelor's of Music in Music Education from the University of North Alabama. Jones spent ten-years of his Army music career studying clarinet with master teacher Kalmen Opperman in New York City. DISCLAIMER --- This publication was privately produced and is not the product of an official of the United States Army acting in an official capacity. The contents of this publication, including words, images, and opinions, are unofficial and not to be considered as the official views of the United States Military Academy, United States Army, or Department of Defense. Neither this publication nor its content are endorsed by the United States Military Academy, United States Army, or Department of Defense.