The Beatles for Two Clarinets: Easy Instrumental Duets
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The Beatles for Two Clarinets: Easy Instrumental Duets Details
(Easy Instrumental Duets). 23 favorites from the Fab Four in easy duet arrangements for two instrumentalists are featured in this collection: All You Need Is Love * Eleanor Rigby * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Penny Lane * Something * Yellow Submarine * Yesterday * and more. Arrangements work for two of the same instrument or can also be used with the other titles in the same instrument family from this series.
Reviews
Hmmmm. Between us my pal and I have 4 degrees in music. We both took up clarinet as a lark in our 60s and thought this might be fun. We weren't expecting anything too fancy or hard. The good news is the duets are not that hard. I'd peg them at about a grade 2-2.5. The less-gooder news is the melodies at times are oversimplified so as to make them sound off or make it hard to play what's written, because you want to play what you hear in your head. The harmony is often "in the right key," more or less, but it's simply not in line with the orig. Fab Four harmonies. Admittedly you can only do so much with just two voices in duets, but the intros to Let It Be and a few others were simply unrecognizable, and you'll often hit a "dead spot" in mid-tune that just does not sound like the song at all. If you are an aspiring clarinetist and Beatles fan, I'd recommend you find one of the many Beatles songbook collections for piano and just make your own duets from there. Even if just one of you reads the melody from a piano book and the other reads the bass line, it'll sound better than these did.
