Klarinet Archive - Posting 000494.txt from 2002/12

From: Tom.Henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] problem
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:26:25 -0500

My wife is a degreed vocalist and has performed professionally as well.

Up until recently, I never asked her help on anything clarinet related
thinking it was a waste of her time.

Boy was I wrong!

Taking into account what Kelly has pointed out, there are still some basic
skills that a vocalist can show an instrumentalist of great importance.

For me it was breathing and phrasing (how to recognize a phrase-beginning,
middle, end). My wife has shown me some breathing exercises that have made a
tremendous difference in my ability to play a phrase properly without having
to breath somewhere in the middle. This has given me the ability now to play
by phrase, and not by measures and notes.

Tom Henson

Kelly Abraham: << There are good and bad of every subset. As a rule, the
vocalists wouldn't necessarily be a good match because there is a different
focus in instrumental musical emoting of a theme or melody than a vocal one,
since in the instrumental works there are no words for emphasis. >>

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