Klarinet Archive - Posting 001180.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #356
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:38:27 -0500

Long tones are a prerequisite to good tone - for either fast or slow
passages. It is a proven fact........if you don't like long tones and
feel you don't need to play them, that's fine. But, the posting is
correct regarding use of long tones every day.

Roger Garrett

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 HatNYC62@-----.com wrote:

>
> <<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.
>