Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2010/12

From: John Brophy <johnbrophy0@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Practice your scales
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:35:06 -0500

But don't you think that you have to train eyes as much as fingers and ears?
Otherwise your fingers get ahead of your eyes in the middle of, say, a Weber
passage, and we fall off the horse? I dislike scale books &c, but they have
their uses.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Kathy Williams-DeVries <
kathleenwilliams76@-----.com> wrote:

> Hello Dan
>
>
>
> You make very valid points. I am well aware of the mechanics that go into
> making the clarinet sound, and these mechanics are featured prominently in
> my instructional videos, not only on legato, but also staccato, where you
> want to achieve a legato tone, just with shorter notes. However, that
> said,
> I am an extremely lousy teacher, which is why I work in an office. For me,
> I
> take a philosophical standpoint, and that works for me, not necessarily and
> probably not at all, a student. Teaching is a mystical art that is well
> beyond me, but I have the highest admiration for those that make it their
> life's work. My communication one on one is pretty awful, and I much prefer
> sending template emails, with the power to bring down an entire Wide Area
> Network at the click of a mouse button mwahahahahahahahahahaha... (I work
> for Australia's biggest telecommunications company)
>
>
>
> Kathy,
>
>
>
> In the movie "The Music Man," Professor Harold Hill teaches the town's
> children to play their band instruments not by giving them lessons, but
> rather by telling them to "think about it." You statement about tone being
> a matter of self-conception sounds to me like the same approach.
>
>
>
> Now I am confident that you, as a fine instrumentalist, pay a great deal of
> attention to the many physical factors that influence the tone's character,
> and that you also pay careful attention to the sound that you and your
> instrument produce. But your statement sounds as if these physicality's are
> of seconday consideration to your own self-conception.
>
>
>
> Concepts aid your personal measurement of sound character, but I don't
> think
> that they are anywhere near as important as the physical things that create
> the sound, some of which, like your body type, are not really under your
> control. Besides, concepts are difficult if not impossible to express in
> rational ways and are not really much different from Professor Hill telling
> his charges to "think about it.".
>
>
>
> Perhaps I misunderstood you.
>
>
>
> Dan Leeson
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Kathy Williams-DeVries
>
> BMusPerf (Hons)
>
> Grad Dip Arts (Shakespeare Studies)
>
> ATCL, LTCL
>
> 0404946839
>
> www.kathywilliams76.com
>
>
>
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