Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2004/12

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Embouchure help
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:01:32 -0500

Sure-fire? No.

Advice? Get her as close as you can to what you consider "acceptable"
without making the whole thing an unpleasant chore. Then work on building
general musical and listening skills. If she has the basics (not putting her
teeth against the reed or biting hard enough to close it, etc...) and she's
using enough air to produce a rudimentary tone, her embouchure can be
refined later as refinement becomes needed to do more advanced things.
Self-monitoring is a skill that takes time and experience (the student's
experience, not the teacher's) to develop. Until it does there's a real
limit on how much fine-tuning you can get a student to do with embouchure or
any other area of technique because it won't stay between lessons if she
doesn't "hear" (perceive, understand and value) the difference.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Page [mailto:Bill.Page@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 5:42 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Embouchure help
>
>
> Good afternoon, folks.
>
> I have recently started teaching a young (12-year old) lady to play our
> favorite instrument. It's been a couple of decades since I worked with
> beginning players, and I'm having trouble getting her to form an
> acceptable embouchure and to blow naturally. Part of the issue is that
> she has trouble hearing the difference between when she gets it right
> and when it's not right, but the rest of it, I think, something I'm
> missing on how to teach it.
>
> Anybody got any sure-fire embouchure techniques?
>
> Bill Page
> Kenosha WI
>
>
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