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Re: piercing high notes

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-03-25 15:49

I think the links only seem to work when they are preceeded by "www" rather than "test" cause I just tried it too and it didn't work for me either.

BTW, never got the chance to thank you for this. I am working on the mozart concerto as well (K622) and that's what I needed it for. A few runs have to be "echoed" in a p sound after being played ƒ or mƒ. One thing I'd like to add that helped me was this.

As I was practicing the higher notes, I would hold my tongue gently against the reed, begin to breathe through the instrument giving it the breath support it needs for that note, and then gently "release" the reed allowing the note to sound. This taught me that the reed doesn't need to be "attacked" with the tongue for the note to sound, but it's the "release" of the tongue which allows the reed to vibrate.

This has helped me to lesson the accent that you get when you quickly tongue the higher notes and has made it much easier to play the clarion and altissimo registers smoother be more assured that it'll come out the dynamic that I want. It also helped me to play staccato better and articulate a bit better. Maybe it's all in my head, but when I think of a note differently (such as "releasing" the reed instead of "hitting" the reed) it helped my playing.

Good luck with your pieces. I'm still working on mine so I can show the music department at the end of the semester that the lessons have been paying off and hopefully get a good grade.

Alexi

Retired, playing more sax than clarinet, but still playing clarinet and still loving it!

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