Klarinet Archive - Posting 000163.txt from 2002/10

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] What not to do
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:39:41 -0400

--- Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net> wrote:

> I learned a lot that year - none of it about the clarinet. But I did learn
> what not to do when, years later, I began to teach my own students. Iron-
> ically, the knowledge of what not to do has probably been as valuable as
> anything else I've learned in the years since.

Perhaps you didn't realize that much was indeed learned about the clarinet.
The more advanced a player becomes, the more apparent it becomes that so much
of becoming technically proficient is a matter of getting out of one's own way.
In so many cases, it turns out to be what we're doing...something that needs
to be conditioned *out* of our approach to the instrument, that is inhibiting
forward motion. Absorbing that idea and then examining the "resistances" that
exist in one's technique, i.e., what you're doing that is causing the logjam
in progress, can lead to quantum leaps in growth, much of the issue stemming
from physical tension and ineffective use of the air stream.

Neil

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