Klarinet Archive - Posting 000390.txt from 2001/12

From: agalper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Exercises for Tongue Position?
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:42:08 -0500

HI, I DON'T WANT TO SOUND MY HORN, BUT IF YOU GET MY TONE, TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
YOU WILL FIND A LOT OF HELP FOR THE TONGUE PROBLEMS. AG

EClarinet@-----.com wrote:

> Jon said:
>
> <<After having read through Ridenour's "The Educator's Guide to the Clarinet"
> and Hadcock's
> "The Working Clarinetist" I'm very interested in how to better teach my
> students on the
> subject of tongue position - particularly in the form of possible playing
> exercises. In addition
> to the brief overblowing examples in the two books above, I've run across
> one from a former Jim Kanter
> student in the archives but haven't found any others.
>
> Anyone have any others or other possible written sources on the subject?
>
> Thanks!>>
>
> Then Clark said:
>
> <>
>
> Clark, I think you have got the wrong end of the tongue here! Jon's mention
> of Ridenour's book refers to tongue position as it relates to voicing, not
> tonguing.
>
> Jon, I personally use a tuner with my students to check their tongue
> position. If the needle sinks, then we know their tongue position is sinking
> too. I have them play a scale, and we check each note. I show them which
> notes the tongue tends to sink on (like around the lower clarion) and explain
> why this is happening and what they can do to counteract this tendency.
>
> I also have them start a passage with a good position, as verified by the
> tuner, and then they play to the end, and we look over at the tuner again and
> see if they have maintained the same basic position. Often when you start
> them off with a good back-of-tongue position, they think they've got it and
> then let it slack off. This exercise really shows them that they have to
> continue to maintain the position.
>
> Hope this helps....
>
> Elise Curran
> Orlando,FL
>
>
>
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