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Author: muppie
Date: 2014-02-09 16:15
Hi, I made a video that shows me playing my lyrique libertas and my buffet E12F. I'm showing the response on my Android tuner app as well.
I used the same mouthpiece, ligature and reed on both clarinets.
I have a question. Whenever I play my note, especially in the clarion register, there's this brief initial undertone. How do I avoid that?
Here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p53tzFZGjEY
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2014-02-09 18:18
Hi Muppie,
If you provided a video of the same thing but with your face in the view, many of us could help you more quickly!
The grunt or undertone is an issue of an improperly formed embouchure or an inelegant/clumsy articulation -- or both together.
From the articulative sound that I hear in both chalumeau and clarion registers, it sounds as if you are an anchor tonguer (I could be wrong). This means that the tip of your tongue is anchored at the base of the teeth or lower lip, and the middle of your tongue is what you use to touch the reed.
Your sound profile changes when you articulate. I would guess that either you have some subtle jaw motion with each articulation, or that the clarinet moves within the embouchure when you articulate.
Additionally: in that the instrument doesn't speak immediately after you've taken a breath, you may not have your embouchure set before you play.
I'm sure others will have thoughts as well. Again -- a video of you playing the instrument would help tremendously!
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: muppie
Date: 2014-02-09 18:30
I have just made one other video, but not showing my embouchure properly. I will make another one with a close up of the embouchure and post it here.
This is what I've got so far: it was made before reading your post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OETvSNpXr6I
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2014-02-09 19:04
No that's quite good: your embouchure is set and there is no motion in it when articulating in this register. If you were to do another video, tonguing in the clarion should be involved.
Immediately after each breath, however, your embouchure sets a split second after you've started the note. This is perceptible because it is heard clearly in the sound.
I still hear you being an anchor tonguer. Even if I'm wrong, however, you have yet to develop a consistent tonguing motion that is universally the same. The variation in the sound of the articulation (sometimes soft, sometimes firmer, sometimes clear, sometimes "fuzzy" or un-defined) makes this necessity apparent.
In general: you'd like the same part of your tongue to touch the same part of the reed 999 out of 1000 times. In the beginning this is a good rule to follow that you may later find does not need be universally applied.
In general: you should tongue with the tip of your tongue. Again, this is a good place to start that you may later change.
Until your tonguing motion is simple, efficient, economical, and gentle -- you'll have difficulty articulating clearly and quickly in the second register.
James
PS -- within the school of thought to which I subscribe, I would also suggest that you need to voice the notes: the back of the tongue should be high, as it is when you say "eeeeeeeee".
Gnothi Seauton
Post Edited (2014-02-09 19:05)
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