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Re: Voicing Inconsistency

Author: Tyler
Date: 2005-05-31 17:57

Thanks a lot for the advice! What I am collecting here (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that I should more or less maintain a relaxed tongue position as well as embouchure position with the exception of sealing lips around the mouthpiece. This makes sense. I have been working on relaxing my throat and keeping my embouchure stable so that I can focus on fingers.

Once I participated in a masterclass with Tom Ridenour. His biggest comment to my playing was that my tone "color" was very inconsistent. Granted, this was one or two years ago, and I have improved, but he had a point. He played some Mozart for us, and his tone was probably the most fluid, relaxed, and resonant sounds I have ever heard come out of a clarinet. (Still after 1-2 years). And guess what? Most of his lecture to our class was "Embouchure kills sound. Air air air air air air!"

Thank you again, and I'm going to go and check new posts now!

-Tyler

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