Klarinet Archive - Posting 001342.txt from 1998/05

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Help-embouchure!?!?
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 19:32:45 -0400

Switch mouthpieces.

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Wed, 27 May 1998, pim2 wrote:

> This is my problem too - it really bugs me - I am using a Vandoren B45 - I
> don't know much about clarinets since I am new to it all. But this
> embouchure problem is really upsetting me - especially going from middle b
> to a and back again. Help me if you can!
>
> Erica Dyson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Yungkurth [mailto:clarinet@-----.net]
> Sent: 27 May 1998 21:39
> To: Klarinet (Messages)
> Subject: [kl] Re: Help-embouchure!?!?
>
>
> Alain D Codera wrote:
>
> >I'm a college student and desperately need help on my embouchure. My
> >teacher says that my bottom lip/jaw are moving whenever I tongue.And
> >my embouchure keeps changing from the low register to the high. I
> >know IT SHOULDN'T.It is affecting the altissimo register badly and
> >it's discouraging me. Has anyone has tips or exercise to overcome
> >these problems.
>
> This may have nothing to do with your problem, but I started lessons with a
> new teacher 40 years after my last previous lessons, while in high school.
> He observed my jaw movement, but said nothing and told me to watch myself
> playing in a mirror. I spotted the motion, but had not been aware of doing
> it.
>
> He had previously had me change to a significantly better mouthpiece. He
> sent me away to think about the jaw motion. I found that I didn't need to
> move the jaw to play in tune with my new mouthpiece, and that it was
> relatively easy to stop the habit. Apparently the jaw motion was part of my
> compensation to play in tune with a bad mouthpiece!
>
> Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)
>
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