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Re: Better Sound

Author: Benni
Date: 2003-05-12 00:26

It sounds like you mainly need two things:

- Faster air
- Better voicing (tongue position)

Think about making "cold air" (this was discussed in another thread recently), it will naturally help you to move you air faster. When you make an airstream into your hand as if you were playing the clarinet, does it feel warm or cold? In general, warm air is a sax technique and cold air is a clarinet technique. The faster air will probably also put that "energy" into your sound.

Now, when you play, where is the back of your tongue? Is it low and flat or high and curved? Think about the letter 'd' or 'e' to help shape the air as it goes into your clarinet. People talk lots about embouchure, but voicing has a bigger impact on the sound.

Improving your air speed and voicing will improve your tone immensely, and best of all, they're free! You could have the world's greatest setup, but if you don't have some of the fundamentals down, you won't get a great tone out of it.

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