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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2004-09-08 09:32
Hey guys
Does anyone have any advice, excercises, or opinions on some of the very nitty-gritty 'refined', 'advanced' techniques on clarinet. And by this I am speaking of finger 'pops', even breath, even dynamic changes, throat position, tongue position, emouchoure position, use of syllables in throat position, etc. etc. and how they all relate?
For the past couple of days, for some reason I have been dropping my soft pallet and as a result I've sounded shocking! I've just spent an hour on long tones, experimenting with my throat, lips, syllables, etc. etc. and I've decided that I need to change something in order to make my use of my respiratory system / the way I make a sound to make it all work more efficiently. I also have a leak on one side and I want to nail it one and for all.
Thanks in advance, looking forward to a great discussion on this stuff!
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Author: kdennyclarinet
Date: 2004-09-08 21:52
Check out Ridenour's "The Educator's Guide to the Clarinet"
This book not only helped me with some embouchure and tongue placement issues, but it gave me the right kind of dialog to help my students to achieve the same success.
K. Denny
BME, MM, DMA
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2004-09-08 22:20
My clarinet teacher used to refer to the basic sound stuff as "long note hell." It was his opinion everyone needed to spend a great deal of time there.
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Author: Alexis
Date: 2004-09-10 22:47
There is a interesting article by Catherine McCorkhill about sound ideals on the Aus Clarinet and Sax Society website
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Author: Alexis
Date: 2004-09-10 22:56
There is a interesting article by Catherine McCorkhill about sound ideals on the Australian Clarinet and Sax Society website which should come up on a search.
Have a scout around here for things like tonal development, projection etc as there are lots of cool practice technique involving harmonics which make you listen to your sound much more.
If you can find "The Art of Clarinet Playing" by Keith Stein it is a terrific book with lots of things to try and think about. There's also a two volume set of method books by Leon Russianoff who was professor at Juilliard some time back. They are all about refining technique (they assume a fairly high level of competence to begin with).
Try putting the sound you want into words. Then concentrate on focussing the airstream and thinking about what sound you want to come out. That's a bit airy fairy...but its sort of a long term thing that you keep on trying to do.
Hope that helps
Alex
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2004-09-11 02:26
Thanks for the advice, I'm not really talking about tone here, I'm talking about the physical use of the respiratory system and making it more economic to run: higher efficiency in day-to-day use, ironing out tension etc.
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Author: lllebret
Date: 2004-09-11 19:44
You might want to check out some books on the Alexander technique or, better yet, seek out an Alexander teacher.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2004-09-12 03:08
Yes I'm taking Alexander Technique classes and I'm looking into Feldenchrist (Yeah, spelling, I have NO idea!).
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-09-13 04:13
If you want a physiology book for musicians, then get "The Rock-N-Roll Singers Survival Manual" by Mark Baxter - Hal Leonard Publisher.
It isn't at all what you would think from the title name. Quite detailed on use of the breathing aparatus, and efficiency.
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Author: LeOpus1190s
Date: 2004-09-13 18:28
I strongly believe that teaching a student can only go so far. The things that we consider refining I think are more or less up for us to do. I kind of believe that if you can hear it you will find a way to fix it. It is in my opinion what seperates the secessful from well the not so successful.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-09-13 18:59
Can tone be taught?
YES
Can technique be taught?
YES
Ultimately it's the player who has to make it happen, but the teacher can (if effective) teach the student how to work on it and what to do.
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