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Author: Vic
Date: 2003-02-05 14:59
What works for me is simply humming while playing. Gives a good jazz growl.
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Author: Bazzer the Jazzer
Date: 2003-02-05 16:42
Mark Sloss said,
Tie it to a post and then dangle a raw steak in front of it.
I tried this, it does not work, but I'm grilling the steak for my tea and hAving it with creamed potatoes and garden peas!
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-02-05 16:50
Grill the horn. I guarantee you'll get some mighty interesting effects from that!
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Author: Dan
Date: 2003-02-05 17:33
When I was a kid (like a half century ago), I remember hearing what sounded like growling in 12th Street Rag by Pete Fountain. It fascinated me as to how he did it. So I tried various means to emulate it. After a while, I had it down perfectly. The best way for me to describe how to do it is to say the following: while blowing into the horn, close the back of your throat slightly as if you were continually trying to clear your throat. For me, it works quite well. I can create quite a growl.
Thanks for bringing back an old memory.
Dan
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Author: ed
Date: 2003-02-05 18:12
loosen your embouchure. it's the trick that sax players use. it works better on the sax too.
ed
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Author: Karl
Date: 2003-02-05 23:34
If you want an extreme growl, try flutter tounging in addition to humming while you play. Otherwise I also like to use a deep, throaty groan similal to a sound you would make if growling without an instrument.
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Author: Michael
Date: 2003-02-06 01:19
Interestingly enough, I was just looking at a method book that has a Chapter on all these techniques for clarinet; growling, slap tongue, lip buzz, multiphonics, etc. It's New Directions For Clarinet by Rehfeld. I don't know how it is, I haven't bought it. I know this stuff from sax, moving some of it over to clarinet has been easy. Growling is one of the simplest. Just hum while you play. The lower (note) you hum, the deeper the growl.
Have fun.
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Author: Cindy
Date: 2003-02-06 04:45
I've also heard where people kind of flutter tongue with the back of their tongue while partly closing off the throat. I have tried it, and it was worked so far for me in jazz band.
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Author: William
Date: 2003-02-06 15:01
"Any advice on how to make the Clarinet Growl!"
Don't feed it. Makes my choc. lab. a bit fiesty.............
(morning humor--couldn't resist)
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Author: Bazzer the Jazzer
Date: 2003-02-06 17:53
Just as an addition to my 'Clarient Growl' I just looked up 'Growl' in an old book I have called WORD FINDER and under Growl it has a few ways of doing it! ominously; pugnaciously; disapprovingly; menacingly; furiously; warningly; audibly; ferociously; formidably; irascibly; surlily; gutterally. do I have to learn all those(JOKE)
PS the hum works, thanks all for the advice.
Barrie
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2003-02-07 00:30
The growl is much easier to learn with a double lip embouchure. When you can do it with the double lip then change back to single lip and it should come out fine.
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Author: Malaya
Date: 2003-02-08 16:05
A friend of mine, who is 18 and absolutely a saxophone god, told me the way to growl notes is to hum the fifth of the note while playing it... He does it magnificently on alto, and he's done it on my clarinet before. I can't seem to master it though... As I'm also a singer in the chorus, I've been almost trained to keep my throat as open as possible at all times, so closing it off to hum is impossible. Loosening the embouchure would also work, though it tends to tickle my nose and make me sneeze... Hope you have better luck than I did!
*~*Malaya*~*
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