Klarinet Archive - Posting 000781.txt from 2002/11

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Introducing tonguing - was "teaching clarinet"
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:00:09 -0500

excuse me for all of the lower cases, something is wrong with the
keyboard...

ahhh, the dreaded lazy toungue. my entire band suffers. i suffered until i
was corrected, and if there is a chance to spare someone, i will definately
take it. i think i could be a decent teacher someday because of all the
things that i was not taught in my early days of clarinet. now i know what
needs to be taught.

all i was able to do friday in class was tell her to watch my fingers as i
play the scale. afterward, i had her play it. she had the fingerings all
correct and then i explained that the first note she played was c and the
scale was bb concert. then i told her that because different instruments
have different pitched, that was why she played c instead of bb. then i had
a flute player play bb along with me to let her hear it, then i ajusted to c
and she looked very, very suprised. i plan to teach her about the circle of
fiths sometime next week after we work on fingerings and sound. i figured i
would teach her scales that way and see if that would work on someone other
than myself...

the major thing i noticed was the ways she puffed her cheecks. i corrected
that right then and ajusted her mouth a bit. i don;t know how to go about
fixing it. shall i do it piece by piece, or all at once by breaking it down
into steps or something? any suggestions?

-rebecca

>From: Bi6W@-----.net (Bill Wright)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Introducing tonguing - was "teaching clarinet"
>Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:05:50 -0800 (PST)
>
><><> To extend this topic to teaching a beginner tonguing - at what
>point would you teach a rank beginner to tongue?
>
>
>
>Audrey, from a student's point of view (you know that I'm not a
>teacher):
>
>There is more than one way that a new student can fall into 'lazy'
>habits. Some teachers start early in order to avoid 'lazy' tongues,
>and some teachers start late in order to avoid 'lazy' breath support at
>the end of each note.
>
>Another factor: several teachers here have advised that teaching too
>much at once can be a bad tactic. I certainly fell into this category
>when I was beginning. I still do.
>
>Explaining that tonguing does not interrupt the air flow, but only holds
>the reed still, reduces the seeming conflict, of course.
>
>My teacher started late with me. As part of her introduction to
>tonguing, she explained (after 6 weeks) the reason behind her preference
>for "breath support first, tonguing later."
>
>FWIW,
> Bill
>
>
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