Klarinet Archive - Posting 001378.txt from 1998/10

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
Subj: Re: [kl] OUCH!!!
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:37:26 -0500

> Line, while I mean no disrespect to the double lip embouchure idea, I
> would urge you to use it only as a method to see how you can improve your
> single lip embouchure. If you had been playing double lip all along
> and/or were going to switch in your Bb playing, I would be all for
> it....but you risk going backward or delaying the improvement of your bass
> clarinet playing simply by trying a new embouchure approach - a MAJOR
> change. There is really nothing wrong with playing bass clarinet with a
> single lip approach - you just need to figure out what concepts associated
> with the double lip transfer to the single lip and then apply them. You
> will still be able to tune better, and the tone will be better.
>
> Roger Garrett
> Illinois Wesleyan University
>

This sounds like an approach I would use with my students. Even though I hate
single lip for my own playing, I can imagine it's right for someone else. As my
teacher Dieter Kloecker always said, "evolution, not revolution!"

Like Roger says, try it out carefully and use the advantages which it can teach
you for the single lip embouchure. I had to find out everything about double lip
all by myself as I never had lessons with a double lip player. It's a long hard
road, I can tell you.

David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.ch

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