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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-01-19 14:39
I remember once at a high school rehearsal the director (basically loosing it) yelling at the band "if you can't sing it, you CAN'T PLAY IT".
My personal favorite that I say is "look, you aren't playing an electrical instrument which has a loose power chord, you have to **support** to sound good.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-01-19 14:41
One other favorite is " is this lack of talent, or lack of practice?"
That one always gets em.....
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2005-01-19 15:36
The late, great and much-missed Jack Brymer once said that a good musician is someone who learns to live with the shortcomings of their instrument.
When confronted with a page full of semiquavers at a fast tempo, my clarinet teacher advised me not to panic as I only had to play the notes one at a time. My piano teacher was not so sympathetic...
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-01-19 16:15
Glowing generalities but apply to inst. purchasing/bidding, "A fool and his money are soon parted", "There's a sucker born every minute", "There's no business like [musical] show Business". Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-01-19 16:34
"Every note's a solo".
(Motto of the "Riverdale (Maryland) School of Low Clarinet Playing", ca. 1975-1979)
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2005-01-19 16:48
My clarinet teacher comes up with these pearls out of nowhere, with my favorite "Annism" being; "It is really easy except for the hard parts" and "it is easy once you learn how to do it." If I recall, the last was in reference to the Rhapsody in Blue Gliss.
Best
RW
Best
Rick
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-01-19 18:12
The more famous names you happen to drop, the more impressed your fellow bulletin board members will be. ![[right]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie8.gif)
...GBK
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2005-01-19 18:39
"Bach ist nicht Bach, sondern Meer." (Beethoven)
FYI: In German Bach =brook, Meer=sea
cf.
http://www.beethoven.li/seiten/ueber_lvb/zitatelvb.html
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2005-01-19 21:04
"You can't have your stomach full with a spoonful of rice"
(Korean proverb literally translated. My teacher said this as I became anxious to play well as early as possible..)
I love this thread! Please keep posting.
- GBK, I don't get "the walrus was Paul"..Could you explain?
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-01-19 21:19
In the song "I Am the Walrus," John Lennon sings, "I am the eggman...I am the walrus" -- and later, in the song "Glass Onion," we find out that, in fact, "the walrus was Paul."
http://www.creemmagazine.com/BeatGoesOn/Beatles/WalrusWasPaul.html
The entire "Paul is dead" hoax was one of the greatest musical rumors of all times.
...GBK (still a perpetual child of the '60's)
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Author: Garret
Date: 2005-01-19 21:46
"Music is the space between the notes." I think it might have been Debussy who said this.
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Author: Erdinet
Date: 2005-01-20 08:18
I have heard it also said, "There are two kinds of music, good and the other kind."
The list found at: http://www.steelydan.com/expressions.html
has a whole of good ones.....
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-01-20 13:02
When someone is singing a song, ask them,
"Hey, who sings this song?"
After they answer with the artist, look at them and say sharply,
"Then why don't we just let HIM/HER sing it? Ok?"
Obviously only if you know they'll understand you're joking, or if your name is "Simon".
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2005-01-20 15:00
For teaching, it's what I've experienced for a long time. "The sounds that you play are an outward expression of the music already playing in your head." I teach the importance of setting the toe in motion, then hearing the song inside the mind, set to the toe's rhythm, before putting the mouthpiece to the lips.
Music goes 'round and 'round in my head and I wish I had a switch to turn it off when it's time to sleep or to concentrate on something else! But it sure helps to hear it in your head before playing it. How else would it ever come out right? If you can't sing it in your head then it WILL come out wrong when it's played.
This goes hand in hand with what David Blumberg wrote "If you can't sing it you can't play it" (except of course for those who cannot carry a tune or sing that high). If you can sing it then it must already be playing inside your head for it to come out. The clarinet reed is only a substitute for the vocal cords. The trick is to get the fingers to do what their told and that's why, for me, singing is easier.
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Author: William
Date: 2005-01-20 18:54
"If it sounds good, it is good" Duke Ellington on classical music.
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Author: hans
Date: 2005-01-20 20:03
"I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was."
from the late Frank Sweeney, who was a good wit and a good man.
Hans
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