Klarinet Archive - Posting 001021.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: bad tone
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 19:11:58 -0400

Support is automatic.....speed of air is not....and they are NOT the same
thing. Support is an idiomatic word that lacks meaning for the student.
Air speed can be demonstrated and produced at will.......and it is
something that should be revisited in every beginning band/sectional
class daily.

Tightening is a word I would like to see altered.

Roger Garrett

On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Fred Jacobowitz wrote:

> Pat,
> From my experience, it sounds like she is simply not tightening
> and supporting enough. Occasionally I have a student like that. Somehow
> they manage to get a decent enough tone that you are fooled into thinking
> 'if the tone is good the pitch should be good'. Basically, she has to
> learn how to support so that she can tighten up the way she should be. I
> teach my students by having them play screaming, disgusting loud. Then ppp
> or softer but with the same push. Immediately the pitch comes up. Then I
> tell them to REMEMBER how it felt to push like that and to do it all the
> time. Hope this helps.
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
> Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
>
> On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 pmedina@-----.net wrote:
>
> > I teach woodwinds in a middle school and am lucky enough to have the
> > beginner clarinets all by themselves. I always seem to have one clarinet
> > player who plays very flat. The embouchure looks good and when I play with
> > the student, she matches my pitch after some work. What is she doing to
> > play so flat in the first place? She is on a normandy clarinet, a B45 mpc
> > and size 3 Vandoren reeds( I didn't recommend the size, the music
> > supervisor does that). They have all been playing for 10 weeks now.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Pat
> >
> >
> >
>
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