Klarinet Archive - Posting 000122.txt from 2000/12

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rate of Progress
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:12:15 -0500

Dee is perfectly right Bill. I thought you had been "at it" for at least a
couple of years. Take all the time you need. Securing the bottom and
clarinet registers is more "control" to your elbow, to misquote the well
known phrase, for the eventual rise to dizzy heights.
I do have one thing for you to contemplate tho`. If you don`t like the sound
of the clarinet up in altissimo register, then I really think it would
benefit you to leave this part of the instrument alone for the time being.
Restrict your development to C (2 ledger lines above), and consider only (at
present) <listening> to the Mozart concerto, and other similar <tuneful>
clarinet music. You might want to try this as a way to re-learn <how> to
appreciate the whole clarinet as a whole experience. Enjoy it all. The
moment you start to get hang ups, however small, is the time to forget what
you are having hang ups over, and go back to <enjoying> what you have been
practising and playing in lower registers previously.
Best,
Tony W.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Rate of Progress

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 12:38 AM
> 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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