Klarinet Archive - Posting 001156.txt from 1999/03

From: James.P.Reed@-----.net (James P Reed)
Subj: [kl] The past 24 hours with a tuner
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:06:03 -0500

First, thanks ever so much to everyone who has responded to my
frustration with my tuner! As I've come to expect, many of you have
helped me to come to a better understanding of what I should be doing.

I've been playing the clarinet for all of 9 months and, prior to this,
had no practical awareness of the differences between C and Bb
instruments. Especially having been a drummer in a prior life. And, I
have very little music theory so far - I'm on lesson 15 in the first
Rubank book at the moment, having gone through a very basic Pearson book
first.

Anyway, it turns out I was getting the correct response on the tuner
when I set it on auto. I just didn't know the tuner would register one
note lower than what I thought I was playing. And, if I'm properly
understanding everything you've told me, it stands to reason when I was
attempting to use the tuner on the manual setting, each note I was
testing was playing flat since I should have been playing one note
higher than the note I set the tuner for.

I've just spent some time testing all of this on my tuner and am
satisified it's working properly, now that I'm working properly. I'm
beginning to realize I seem to come up with as many user errors in
learning to play the clarinet as I have encountered with computers over
the past three decades. Ouch! I don't mind showing my ignorance or
stupidity on this list though since, ultimately I learn what I'm trying
to understand and hope that I will become a better player for it.

Being relatively new to playing and reading music, the tuner does help
me get a better understanding of how I sound when I'm not playing with
my instructor. I know, from other experiences, that I'm not somebody
who will become dependent on it, which is a good cautionary point
several of you have made about training my ears to know when I'm in
tune. However, I feel using a tuner is a good starting point to train
my ears since I only have a 30 minute lesson per week and am not in any
band or orchestra where I would getting some practical experiences with
tuning. My normal tuning is with student voices in my classrooms.

Once again, thanks ever so much for all of your help and advice. I feel
like I've really learned something useful from many of you list members
in the past 24 hours!

Jim

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