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Author: Joel Clifton
Date: 2004-05-31 20:14
Last spring I discovered a new sound effect that I have never heard anyone else do before. I start with the fingering for high D ( -X OXX XOO, ) and bend the note down to G. If you keep your embochure just right you can get it to work, but it has to be EXACTLY right. It's also perfectly easy to just finger D and have your embochure in the right position already, but it's probably easier to learn it by bending down to it. I think the sound effect comes from a clash between the G that you're bending down to and a G that's slightly off-pitch (multiphonics).
Here's me doing it:
http://www.users.muohio.edu/cliftojd/misc/clarinetsoundeffect.wav
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"You have to play just right to make dissonant music sound wrong in the right way"
Post Edited (2004-05-31 20:27)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-05-31 20:18
Very cool! And definitely 'odd' to my ears. I've heard something like that before (on a CD of a clarinet quartet where the base does that same "clash" but somehow manages to bend the clash UP in pitch. Perhaps he just did what you pointed out in reverse . . . )
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2004-05-31 21:01
Play the third line B. (Use the standard fingering - left pinky). Then, slowly loosen your lower lip. You'll get the same effect.
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