Klarinet Archive - Posting 000005.txt from 2005/05

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] C#G# prob and "2 person clarinet"
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 08:04:43 -0400

On 1 May, Daniel Fairhead <madprof@-----.net> wrote:

> ...while trying to improve my legato, I read on the list about the "2
> person clarinet" idea. I don't have anyone to try this with, but even
> trying to keep a steady airflow myself, and not adjust air speed, mouth,
> etc, I find many notes being out of tune, and when switching registers, or
> doing large jumps, I get the wrong fundimental (I think this is the right
> word?) for instance, fingering an altissimo g, but an alt. d comes out...
> (For those notes and that whole area I often have to lip and change
> airspeed to get the right note...) I am just reading too much into this
> excersize, and that it only works for (say) chalmeau and lower/mid clarion,
> or have I discovered (woo!) that I have really bad technique here, and
> something I should work even more on trying to get to work?

It's difficult to tell without hearing you. Do you find your legato
unsatisfactory in general, or is it just over particular intervals?

The '2-person clarinet' is designed to help get across the idea -- or rather,
the experience -- that, to a first approximation, the most important thing
about playing legato between two notes is that you 'change nothing'. (And
the most important part of that 'changing nothing' is of course that you
continue to blow.) People can get into the habit of interrupting the
airstream right at the end of the first note, without knowing that they do
it.

The fact is, though, that to a second approximation, you do change things,
some of which you mention.

Did you try:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/1998/09/000993.txt

...?

Tony
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