Klarinet Archive - Posting 000486.txt from 2002/12

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] problem
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:22:29 -0500

For a sufficiently advanced student, it is *extremely* effective. A high-caliber violinist or
bassoonist (etc.) isn't wrapped up in the minutiae of manipulating our instrument like we are,
thus liberating them from the distractions associated with clarinet technique. They hear only
sound, as filtered through their educated musical ears, and the feedback they give is
unadulterated by considerations of whether or not something is technically difficult to play.
Ignorant of such issues (much to the student's potential benefit), their feedback is pure. The
more sensitive and well-educated the non-clarinetist coach is, the more the student is compelled
to consider their instrument as a tool in service of the music, as opposed to a conceptualization
where music is some kind of by-product of first figuring out how to use the tool.

The outcome? Heightened musical sensitivity, and often pscyhological leaps forward in terms of
achieving total musical freedom of expression.

Neil

--- Sherwin <surewin120@-----.net> wrote:
>
> I've never heard of anyone taking lessons from someone who doesn't play the
> instrument. I'm curious, how productive is it?
>
> Ruth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Glenn" <notestaff@-----.de>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 5:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] problem
>
>
> > Rebecca Brennan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Lately I have been getting vI need to rant and get a bit of advise.
> > >
> > - snip -
> >
> > >
> > > I don't know what to do! I try to talk to my band direcot about it but
> > > all he says is that it is because I am his best student and he tries
> > > to push me by insulting me.
> > >
> > > -Rebecca
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Dear Rebecca,
> > Although you have had excellant advice (especially from Karl K., Bill W.
> > and Kelly A.) I thought it important to let you know that there are more
> > professional teachers of the same opinion. This is not a very productive
> > approach to teaching. I'm not saying you need to find a teacher who only
> > massages your ego. But my urgent advice to you is to look for a more
> > constructive teacher. And at your stage it should really be a clarinet
> > specialist. I too have had fantastic clarinet lessons from a violinist
> > but even though it was at college level, I had a clarinet teacher at the
> > same time. I wish you the best of luck, good nerves and a good reed for
> > your audition and all the best for your further existence as a clarinet
> > player!
> > Ciao,
> > David
> >
> >
> >
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