Klarinet Archive - Posting 001138.txt from 1997/10

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Long Tones
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 13:58:18 -0500

Be my guest. I am really quite flattered. The clarinet is my avocation. I make my
living as a heat transfer engineer.

Dee

Roger Garrett wrote:

> This is a well-thought out description of why to use long tones every day.
> I may print and give to my students!
>
> Roger Garrett
>
> On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Dee Hays wrote:
> >
> > Very thoughtful questions. Again as I said before, it works. But here are some
> > more thoughts. If your can not play with good tone on a long note, you have
> > little chance of good tone in passage work. Your embouchure muscles have no
> > "built-in" position. The long tones build "muscle memory" of good embouchure.
> > For most embouchure problems, it's easier to find what the problems are. Yes, in
> > theory every note requires a very slightly different embouchure for absolute
> > perfection on that note. In practice this is not a problem.
> >
> > The embouchure muscles are like any other muscles. They need slow exercises as
> > well as fast.
> >
> > Dee Hays
> > deerich@-----.net
> > Canton, SD
> >
> >