Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2011/07

From: Susan Kundert <ohsuzan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Would love feedback...please :) (re-beginner player)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:57:27 -0400

I was just about to wrote a note saying what Arthur said! I hear you
stopping and starting your air on every note. What I would like to hear is
playing by phrase instead of by note.

One way to get yourself into the habit of playing by phrase rather than by
note is to keep your embouchure engaged on the mouthpiece for the entirety
of the phrase. Then keep the air going, as well, making whatever
articulations the music asks for by stopping and starting the tone with your
tongue only.

Good luck to you! Keep after it, and you will soon find yourself improving.

Susan
On Jul 5, 2011 1:28 PM, "Arthur Acheson" <arthur.acheson@-----.com>
wrote:
> You are playing very much 'one note at a time' and tongueing each
> note. I think your sound would improve if you firstly stop tongueing
> and play a phrase at a time. This will force you to use more breath
> support. When you listen then use the tongue only where essential to
> shape each phrase.
> Arthur Acheson
> On 4 Jul 2011, at 07:28, MaryMuse wrote:
>
> I put together a "holiday" concert for my friends on YouTube. It's been
> twenty years since I've seriously played, and I know that I am woefully
> horrible. Fibromyalgia doesn't help because my brain and my fingers
> sometimes don't talk...but with that introduction, if any of the more
> experienced players on the list would love to give me tips, hints, tell
> me all the things I'm doing wrong... I'd very much appreciate it.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3nnc8le68
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3nnc8le68>
>
> Many thanks. My clarinet playing is very much my solace, and I am always
> striving to improve.
>
> Mary
>
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