Klarinet Archive - Posting 001175.txt from 1997/10

From: YeomanHuff@-----.com
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #356 (Long tones)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:13:14 -0500

In a message dated 97-10-26 16:49:19 EST, HatNYC62@-----.com writes:

<< <<If you can not play with good tone on a long note, you have
little chance of good tone in passage work.>>

I suppose, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to practice long tones
first. There are plenty of players whose tones go to hell when the fingers
start moving. Long tones won't help them. That seems to me to be a bigger
problem in players than those who sound fine in passagework but lousy on
single notes. I can't even think of any such players at the moment,
actually. >>

I must agree that the majority of my tone work is focused on *not* moving the
embouchre in passagework. I can play beautiful long tones. But I do tend to
"open up" at the top of runs letting the sound spread as of late. I will fix
it. :) Time to pull out the Opperman DS book 3, too.

Teri Herel.