Klarinet Archive - Posting 000137.txt from 2005/04

From: =?iso-8859-1?B?c2FyYWggZWxiYXo=?= <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] legato
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:07:02 -0400


> Tony Pay wrote:
> > ...but the less developed players I see truly don't need to be distracted
> > from their airstream--they need to focus on it. They need to find ways to
> > separate it from the finger motion: that's the trick. I don't think this is
> > too difficult to teach or learn; it's a concept....the rather well know
> > exercise I call the "two person clarinet" helps get this across quickly.
> > Student blows (with eyes shut); teacher fingers (you have to turn the body
> > of the instrument 3o degrees to get this to work); student continues to try
> > to duplicate that sensation on his own. It's an oversimplication, of
> > course, but a dramatic one.
>
I do this exercise with my students. The name I gave it is: The voice is the voice of Jaccob but the hands are the
hands of Esau.
Sarah
         
> ... Life. Hate it, or ignore it. You can't like it.

Is it ppossible at all to ignore it???

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