Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2003/11

From: Troy Shimkus <musickmann@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] band directors
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:12:52 -0500

Ed,
If you askign about changing your tone from a dark and
centered classical sound to a more open and perhaps
spread jazz tone, Then you can take in more
mouthpiece, or adjust the embourchure. The easist
thing to do that has a lesser chance of affecting your
classical tone is to change your embouchure/reed
combination. And by lsitening to players who have the
tone you want to go for alwasy helps get you closer.
The fact that the recordings you played sounded like a
sax is very common, depending on who they were, they
may have been doublers who started on sax and
therefore have a sax like embouchure for clarinet.

Hope that answers your question,
Troy

--- Ed Stuart <estuart@-----.net> wrote:
> Troy,
>
> Hi. I have taken some of my favorite recordings and
> played parts of them
> for my teacher and basically she panned their sound
> as being more like that
> of a sax and saying that they most likely used a sax
> embouchure when they
> played. If I remember correctly, she indicated that
> they most likely take
> in more of the mouthpiece. How do you change your
> sound?
>
> Later,
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Shimkus [mailto:musickmann@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 3:21 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] band directors
>
>
> Just a quick note froma newbie to the list. It seems
> to me that the ability to play jazz is more a state
> of
> mind than a matter of training. Once you understand
> how to play the instrument and know how to make a
> good
> sound, you can play jazz. All thats left to gain an
> understanding of is chord changes and developing
> your
> ear a bit more. Playing jazz improv is easy if you
> think of it as easy. Just become familar with the
> harmonic strucure of the piece (either by ear or by
> chord analysis) and then play those notes for the
> solo. Just pick out a couple of rhythmic motifs and
> put some different notes there and you've got a good
> beginning jazz practice. As for the jazz sound, I
> think yes, there is definateyl a difference between
> a
> classical orchestral sound, a wind band sound, and a
> jazz sound. They are subtle differences, but
> differneces nontheless.
>
>
>
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