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Author: poopsie
Date: 2005-05-02 22:30
My ensamble is going to play "Tennessee Salute" for our upcoming concert and in the music it calls for the clarinets to "scoop" while on F (high on the staff.) I was not really sure how to scoop, or what scooping really is. Please enlighten me!!!
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Author: bflatclarinetist
Date: 2005-05-02 23:34
I think I have an idea of what scoop means...maybe to play an F then quickly slur (like a grace note) to a G or something. Not sure though, that's just a guess
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-05-03 00:24
A scoop is generally thought of as a small interval glissando or smear.
A very simplistic way to accomplish this is to finger the note but start with a looser embouchure so you are flat and tightening until you bend it to the note that you are actually fingering.
Another, slightly more difficult way to achieve the same effect is to start with a false fingering and quickly and chromatically rise to the intended note.
Easier demonstated than explained...GBK
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2005-05-03 02:45
With your jaw, make like you are trying to see your breath on a cold day (a sort of "howuuu" motion), starting with a very slack jaw and bringing it up to normal.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-05-03 04:09
For practice purposes, play a note regularly, and loosen up your embouchure and see how flat you can let it go. Maybe a quarter tone, maybe a half tone, etc. etc.
So when you scoop something, one way to do it is to finger the note you want to scoop, and start with this "loose" embouchure (it'll start out flat), and then tighten up to bend it back into pitch. You can scoop slowly or quickly, depending on which you want.
I don't know the false fingering method. But if I ever need to know it for a piece of music, at least now I know who to pester and email about it.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: nickma
Date: 2005-05-03 22:49
More specifically, I need to know how to do the opening glissandos in Templeton's Pocket Sezie Sonato No 2...
Nick
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