Klarinet Archive - Posting 000140.txt from 2005/04

From: Robert Howe <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Legendary Teachers
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:11:21 -0400

on 4/10/05 4:15 AM, Tony Pay wrote:

> Yet, I find that there still aren't any surefire solutions to these sorts of
> problems.
>
> Of course, it's part of the bullshit folklore that 'legendary teachers' can
> solve them routinely.

I think that having the insight to probe the basis of a student's problems
and devise effective solutions is what makes a Legendary Teacher. To
illustrate, as a college oboe student I studied with a prominent player who,
despite his many admonitions, could not help me play with vibrato. I spent
a month, just three lessons, working with another player, a virtual unknown
but a fine teacher and he solved my problem literally in a half hour. I
went back to my first teacher, who was astonished at what I had done in so
little time.

While on the topic of insightul teachers, can anyone suggest an efffective
way to learn flutter tonguing? I'm 48 years old and have played woodwinds
for 35 years, yet I have never been able to do this. I can make a guttural
"R" in the throat and bring it up to the front of the tongue, and over the
past year have extended this to the point that I can flutter tongue pretty
effectively in the low register of the alto recorder. But with upper
register notes, or on an oboe or clarinet, the stronger wind stream dampens
out my fluttering.

Suggestions?

Ciao

Robert Howe

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