Klarinet Archive - Posting 000609.txt from 2000/04

From: Dave Sandusky <daves@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Glissando
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:42:56 -0400

CmdrHerel@-----.com wrote:

> Dave! I am hurt! My altissimo is crispy clear!
>
> Joking aside, I do play with no tongue or embouchure weirdness. One of the
> many things I work on in my daily routine is keeping a very channeled tongue
> position in a very definite place in my mouth. This keeps my tone consistant
> and my staccato light and accurate throughout the range of the horn.
>
> Perhaps it is because I work on these things as much as I do that I can throw
> them out the window and go hog wild for the occasional gliss or Klezmer gig?
> (Sort of like eating healty every day and occasionally jambing in a plate of
> ribs and a sundae - won't kill you and man is it fun.)
>
> Teri Herel

OK, so I was being a bit tounge-in-cheek about not learning the gliss,
and I do play with a decent altissimo. My point should have been that
once you learn to "slide around" between notes, you have to pay extra
attention, especially in the altissimo, so that you don't do it by
mistake. Or something like that. If you don't learn it, you don't have
to worry! And you're right, a little junk food now and then can't
hurt. ;-P

Dave Sandusky

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