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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2006-01-04 15:14
Tony,
Although I find your post enlightning and appreciate the fact that it would be quite interesting to investigate what happens in our body and mind as we play, I wonder if there are some basic rules that one can teach to most students.
If someone comes to you with a clarinet and goes: "I want to play this instrument. How do I do it?".
Setting aside the musical training and focusing solely on the technical aspects of clarinet playing (if it is possible at all) do you think there is a set of rules or concepts that can be applied to most students on embouchure, tongue position, breathing, finger technique; or is there absolutely no rule and only one on one teaching can be done.
Is teaching figuring out what works for me and trying to communicate it to the student or helping the student figure out what works for him. Maybe, a combination of both?
In other words, if somebody comes and asks what should he do. Do I tell him what he should do or do I tell him what I do?
Of course as you have discussed here, communicating what we do is challenging enough. Nevertheless, I would like to think that a few basic concepts could be written in a book that one coudl use that start learning how to play. I am trying to figure out if that is at all possible.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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