Klarinet Archive - Posting 000105.txt from 2004/06

From: "Juli Chadsey" <jvkchad@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] glissando help
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:45:04 -0400

LOL
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From: "Tony Pay" <tony.p@-----.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:29 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] glissando help

> On 7 Jun, Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net> wrote:
>
> > At 03:33 PM 6/2/2004, Josh wrote:
> >
> > > A nice little exercise that I have used in the past involves playing a
> > > note and trying to voice the pitch down different intervals. High C
is a
> > > good note to begin this exercise.
> >
> > Josh's exercise is the best way I have seen to do this.
>
> It's certainly the simplest example of how the note gets modified by the
> shape of the inside of the mouth -- in this case, 'bent' downwards. Alf's
> suggestion of using just the mouthpiece+barrel is another way of
approaching
> it, and my 'leaky tube' gives you a wider possible range of bending than
the
> fourth or fifth you can get from a straight high C, and leads on to the
> glissando proper.
>
> > I just returned from the Clarinet Symposium in Norman OK where Anne
Lenoir
> > taught me to do this. Watching her do it showed me how in quick order.
>
> I have to say that although some students who can't do glissando have
> responded to some small extent in a lesson, I've had little success with
> getting immediate results even when I add demonstration to what little I
can
> say about what you do -- including what you do to bend the high C. The
ones
> that succeed in the end seem to do so at home, independently of my input.
>
> And the thing is 'all of a piece' -- when you can do what's required in
any
> of the approaches, the rest is just refinement and practice, essentially.
>
> So when you say:
>
> > Watching her do it showed me how in quick order.
>
> ...that's the nub of the issue.
>
> The question is, *how* did it show you? Can you remember what it was
about
> what she did that enabled you to catch on? Or was your experience a
version
> of what I describe happens with my students -- that is, you got lucky, but
> in this case while you were being demonstrated to?
>
> > Hearing people describe it for the last few years just wasn't very
> > effective.
>
> Perhaps, since it happened quite recently, you can help by describing, not
> how you do it, but your experience of the *process of getting to do it* --
> which most of us have forgotten.
>
> Tony
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