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Airstream Advice

Author: ClariBone
Date: 2005-09-14 23:09

Hello

I recently went to a local clarinet professor, and she said a lot of the same stuff my other one said, with the exception of saying that I had air "spinning" just behind my front teeth. I don't understand what this means. She said I needed to "push" the air out, instead of keeping it "bottled up" behind my teeth. Thanks in Advance!!

Clayton

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Re: Airstream Advice

Author: William
Date: 2005-09-15 14:53

To help focus your airstream towards the tip of the mpc, try thinking of arching the back of your tongue as if imitating a cats hiss. The resulting oral configuration will concentrate and somewhat accelorate your air to provide more support for your sound and hopefully enable better articulative support. And by "push the air out", I think your teacher is referring to taking deep abdominal breaths and giving firm and steady support while exhaling. Larry Combs says always play from a set of full lungs, never just "half full". Breath deep and give steady support to your sound at all times. Conceptually, your breath is like a violinsts bow--use all of it, not just the middle.

So, deep breathing, cats hiss plus the "open" throat concept--it should help eliminate the "spinning" air. Good luck.

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Re: Airstream Advice

Author: ClariBone
Date: 2005-09-15 21:38

Thanks William!!

Clayton * hurriedly rushes off to go practice

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