Klarinet Archive - Posting 000138.txt from 2007/03

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Exercise for developing embouchure and air
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:17:16 -0500

Don't stuff it too tight with the cloth.....air needs a way out. You'll find
that arpeggio....it's a good exercise.

Forest Aten

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esther L. Jones [mailto:familyj@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:17 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Exercise for developing embouchure and air
>
> In my Woodwind techniques class, the professor has us working with a cloth
> stuffed into the bell. With all fingers down (what I think you call a
> long
> B or low E), we are supposed to be able to play an arpeggio.
>
> I am really struggling to accomplish this: I can get a really high note
> (Bb
> I think), and the stuffed-sounding low Eb, but nothing in between.
>
> Can anyone shed light on this exercise, whether I've got the correct notes
> (really an Be arpeggio?) and any further help on how to accomplish this
> exercise? I have definitely noticed a difference and strengthening in my
> sound once I pull the cloth out of the bell, but I cannot seem to make the
> exercise itself do what it is supposed to.
>
> Esther
>
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