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Author: Ratanapol
Date: 2004-05-05 21:01
I did search for a while about vibrato in this BB.
I would like to know more about "Natural Vibrato" and How to practice it??
Thank you
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2004-05-06 12:35
"natural" vbrato??
...as opposed to UN-natural vibrato?
What do you mean by Natural?
If you want to learn How to produce and practice vibrato on the clarinet, there are many helpful suggestions and instructions here in the archives.
Learning how to produce it -- a technical element -- is not that hard; learning how to Use it -- a musical element -- is a different issue.
I think what you are looking for would be simply "vibrato." Such words as natural, unnatural, organic, free, tasteful, distasteful, vocal, nanny-goatish, etc., would just be adjectives some may apply to the use.
Tom Piercy
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Author: CPW
Date: 2004-05-06 12:58
This month's Scientific American has good article about natural vibrato....seems that the stuff we are made of --strings(not woodwinds?)-- vibrates at a certain frequency....so....we ALL have natural vibrato....and CPW has had way too much coffee.
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2004-05-06 13:09
Yes, I, too, am always shaking, vibrating and pulsating -- but on the clarinet I shake my Mozart different than my Brahms and my Poulenc.
Tom Piercy
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2004-05-06 14:37
Yep, I agree. "Natural Vibrato" is an older geezer (like me) with mal-adjusted false teeth. (Also like me). But I sound "maarrvellouss" on "Strangers On The Shore."
Bob A
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Author: ron b
Date: 2004-05-06 19:12
You're on, center stage,
packed house,
the MC has just delivered
a marvelous introduction
and the applause
is full of warm anticipation...
As a respectful quiet
settles over the crowd
and the house lights dim,
the footlights brighten
and the overheads intensify --
the conductor masterfully
raises his baton and...
you suddenly discover
you left
your ligature screws
in your other pants pocket....
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2004-05-06 20:50
Hey ron b, if it was "in your other pants pocket...." you'd have a fine sense of the twitches. If it were in the pocket of your OTHER pants---there is where the problem starts.
Bob A
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2004-05-07 01:38
Now why would you even remove the ligature screws?'
Besides if CPW is right....then according to the STRING THEORY to which he/she is alluding, we are ALL using string ligatures even if it says Spriggs or Optima or Winslow on it.
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2004-05-07 01:53
The way Ella sings Cole Porter... that's a natural vibrato.
Not forced, used only sparingly and as a tone color.
My vibrato is generated from the diaphragm and throat... my teacher's are forever trying to get me to generate it at the reed (which is hopeless).
It's enough to make my sound distinct in a section, but not so much as to be a distraction. It is (of course) a pitch control problem when I'm tired.
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