Klarinet Archive - Posting 000855.txt from 2000/05

From: klar-Ann-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tone and its perception
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 19:44:27 -0400

Claudia,

The other replies have given suggestions that can help. I will add a
couple more comments of a similar level.

But paradoxically, we never know how we sound.... for all the reasons
that you state.
So, what does work?

I consistently have best results when i am too busy with useful focus to
'listen to how i sound.' The order and focus on each of the 3 levels.

--Mental: pitch, rhythmic pulse.
--Physical: awareness of the sensations/actions that are part of the air
and energy ready to respond to the direction of the ...
--Artistic/Imaginative: focus colors, emotions, shapes, gestures,
costume, story line.

For more lucid and detailed writing on ways to focus the mind and free
the body to respond, see:

Tony Pay's articles on subjects of Breathing and Diaphram (kl archives)
give sense and philosophy that could be applied to timbre.
and books THE INNER GAME OF MUSIC/Green, THE ART OF PRACTICING Bruser,
STAGE FRIGHT, IT'S CAUSES AND CURES, and A NEW APPROACH TO VIOLIN PLAYING
by Kato' Havas.

Find a teacher, if only a couple of lessons, who has this kind of
philosophy and understanding because for the most part these things are
clearer demonstrated than discussed.

As a sample of asking for information or description rather than
judgement of knowledgeable audience, I ask about *balance*.
The tonal information is often answered as well, and in a useful context.

annhall
~~Ann Satterfield~~~
clarinetist and teacher
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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