Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2011/01

From: Richard D Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] baritone sax/clarinet double problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:36:24 -0500

Possibly, you just need to become a better clarinet player. In time
you will learn to make embouchure, throat, tongue and breath support
distinctions between the two instruments. It can be done. I know many
fine musicians who started out life as sax players and have become
really fine clarinet players....but they took the clarinet very
seriously for a very long time and before it finally became second
nature to them. Clarinet playing is very different in many ways, as
you are have come to realize.

I just played a pit gig where I had to play clarinet, bass clarinet,
bari sax and bassoon. Among other things, its a lot of reeds to keep
wet.

I guess the bottom line is just to practice.

RB

On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Charles Levine wrote:

I am a baritone sax player that doubles on clarinet. By itself, I
play fairly
well on clarinet (good sound etc.) but, when I have to switch over to
clarinet
from bari in the middle of a song, (dance band) I have trouble
sounding decent.
Any suggestions?
charlie
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