I've been studying more advanced (advanced to me anyway) music theory for the Clarinet. I have two beginners books. One Acracadabra book and the other is a tune a day book two. I'm confused as I've come across music pieces that contain triads and I can clearly understand how these would be read and performed on a piano, but I can't find anything that can help me with these on a Clarinet. I simply have no idea where to go from here. I firstly thought maybe it is just for the piano, but when I came across these triads in my Clarinet book I became confused again.

Can anyone help, how would I read these or do you know any books that would be more informative. At the moment I'm not having lessons so I'm completely on my own in terms of learning.

Thanks

if you're learning theory, triads are useful to understand even if you don't play piano. music theory as a whole and playing clarinet are separate- you can apply theory to what you're playing but you can't always play the theory stuff, because you can only play (usually) one tone at a time.

Play the three notes very rapidly starting at the lowest note. The three should be played in the timing of one, eg, if they are halfnotes play all three in the timie of one half note.

Thanks, I've been confused with these triads as they're perfectly easy to understand on the piano. But when it comes to the Clarinet I was reading them as chords and couldn't understand how to even start. It makes a lot of sense now. Thanks for the link also, that was very useful.

You might also want to take a look at www.musictheory.net they have a lot of theory exercises. I've used it a lot as refrence for music theory II at my high school.

-ash