Klarinet Archive - Posting 000599.txt from 2003/08

From: "Antoine T. Clark" <trioarioso@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Articulation Problems
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:20:59 -0400

I am scared if you tell a student to do du-du. The may automatically place
the tongue to low on the reed and the tip of the tongue is not touching the
tip of the reed but just behind the tip of the tongue. I make my students
blow with the embouchure formed making sure to keep the air going and let
them tongue with the tip of the tongue stopping the air (vacuum feel). I
stay away from syllables and the like. Just my teaching style.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Lenoir" <AnneLenoir@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Articulation Problems

> Against my better judgement, I start off from the very beginning with
> "du-du-du-du-du-" because the band program is geared towards
> articulating. Someimes i feel as though the band directors are trying to
> have each note sound as though they are stabbing it with a knife. I have
> a couple of 10-year-olds who can slur their one-octave scales (concert
> Bb, Eb & Ab) and also articulate them with legato, up and down. I have
> one 6th grader, an 11-year-old, who can play all three scales up-&-down
> for 2 ocataves. Her Gb concert scale is just about there.
> If I were not participating in the district band program as a
> sectional rehearsal person and "band-aid", I would just stick with the
> Galper Method for a couple of years. ANNIE
>
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