Klarinet Archive - Posting 000408.txt from 2001/12

From: Jon Usher <ewijon@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Exercises for Tongue Position?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:46:16 -0500

Ha ha, thanks AG - All my students at CSSB are already using your "Tone,
Technique and Staccato" book as well as your "Upbeat Scales" book. I think
both method books are great.

No, I was just looking for further details and methods to describe to them
what should be happening.
It's something I've always done but never thought about before.

Thanks,

-Jon

At 04:42 PM 12/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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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Jon Usher
mailto:ewijon@-----.net

Clarinet Instructor
Cal State San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA

"The man who hath no music in his soul is not a man to be trusted."
-Willy Shakespeare-

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