Klarinet Archive - Posting 000101.txt from 2000/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Rate of Progress
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 10:51:00 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Apostrophe [was War of the Tony`s]

> <><> Tony Wakefield wrote:
> Bill, It was a year ago that you told us you were up to high D. Only a
> couple of days ago you are now trying high E. Could I ask what you are
> doing? You should be on high F by now (at least).
>
>
>
> What can I say, Tony? Music is an uphill struggle for me. No,
> that isn't the correct way to say it. Music is a grand pleasure to me,
> which is why I posted a week or two ago that I play for my own pleasure,
> not for the sake of performing. If I had intended to be a performer, I
> would have quit long ago. In fact, I never would have started in the
> first place.
> Also, I'm certain that my definition of "playing high D" is
> stricter now than it was a year ago.
> And finally, I realize that high notes are part of music, but,
> truly, I don't enjoy the clarinet's sound when it gets way up there --
> not even when a virtuoso is playing.

Actually if I recall, you just started playing a little over a year ago. So
it seems to me as if you went to the altissimo D too soon and it is not so
strange that you are just now playing the E. The altissimo D is fairly easy
but the E can be tricky as it tends to want to jump into another harmonic.
This is useful later when you need to go higher but is a nuisance at this
stage of development.

There is enough to work on in breath control and support, embouchure control
and support, reading music, learning dynamic control and a host of other
things that it is perfectly reasonable to leave the altissimo register until
one's second year of study.

Dee Hays

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