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RE: Push to the top please

Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-04-25 17:53

Without the clarinet, try singing "eeeeeee" as high-pitched as you can. Notice where your tongue is in your mouth. Chances are that the sides of the tongue are touching the insides of your top molars and that the back of your tongue is very high, toward the roof of your mouth. This position creates a very narrow, "cold air" stream. With the clarinet, try to come as close as you can to that position on your extremely high notes. Keep it loose enough so you can still move the tip of the tongue either on the reed or just behind the mouthpiece, against the ridge of gums behind your top teeth (depending on your mouth structure). That high tongue position is the key to altissimo for me, although (as usual) your mileage may vary.

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