Klarinet Archive - Posting 000888.txt from 2000/10

From: Charles Schneider <chnani@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: [kl] Saxophonist problems
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:03:46 -0400

Thanks a lot for your quick, good and nice answer, Neil

> When you say things like "lips out" and "french way", I assume you're re-
> ferring to playing with the teeth on the top of the mouthpiece vs. playing
> with both the upper and lower lips curled over their respective sets of
> teeth.

1) My teacher and me plays with the teeth on the top of the mouthpiece.
I was talking about the LOWER LIPS :
It's more 'effective' for me to play with my lower lips more out of the
mouth (but always curved on the teeth) than him. My actual teacher plays with
his lower lip completly inside the mouth.
I hope you can understand what i mean ;-)
What is your advise on this?

2) About the barrel, my question can be:
Why can we found short and long barrels ? How do they act on the sound and
intonation.

> > I know it's sounds a little crazy, but i feel like i don't use may air in
> > the right way.
>
> You may, in fact, not be using your air in the most effective way. From your
> description, it sounds like you're filling up your chest without expanding your
> diaphragm. This method will produce the problem that you describe, namely that
> you feel like you have a lot of excess air at the end of a phrase. Try breath-
> ing from your diaphragm first -- from the lower belly, where your pants wrap
> around your waist. Expand there first while taking in air, slowly filling up
> your lungs with air. Expand upward to the chest *last*. After taking in a
> full supply of air, maintain the expanded feel in your belly while playing,
> such that you push downward and outward from there, allowing you to control
> the flow of your air stream while actually using less air to produce your tone

I think i do that, like with my saxophone. I cannot say that i am always
perfect with that ...

> No matter how free blowing or resistant your clarinet is, proper breathing tech-
> nique remains the same.

I'm not so shure, it seems to me that that the resistance of my
mouthpiece/clarinet is a part of my problem.
3) - Why the Selmer 10S and Prestige model are really more confortable
(naturel) for me ?

My english is really to bad for alking about jazz saxophone embouchure and
mouthpieces : very very open if you compare with clarinet mouthpieces and with
less resistance. (It's what it feel) .
I am to obssed about centering my sound, i have to wait like you
say. It's difficult to be patient ! Praticing clarinet is a lot pleasure and
add some nice 'facette' on my saxophone playing.

But without always talking about material i will read carefully all your advises
again and again -with my english dictionnary ! ;-)

>
> I hope you find this information helpful.

Yes it was, thanks Neil.
I have to go to sleep in this side of the ocean .

--
Charles Schneider
chnani@-----.fr
The web site i have made with and for my student's. (200 pages of documents
and links) . Try "Document ext." for instance :
http://perso.club-internet.fr/chnani/ejma.html

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