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Singing&playing, throat, tone quality

Author: hupsop
Date: 2009-01-26 22:43

Hello

I'm an beginnerish clarinetist, I've been playing for about 1½ years now (before that around 10 years of guitar so I'm not beginner with music though). I'd say my tone is good or at least decent given that I've not played for that long, but I noticed quite dramatic improvement after this excercise I've been doing so I'm looking now for some ideas to implement this better & gain understanding of the issue. What I'm doing is playing long notes and singing the fifth at the same time (so it produces kind of buzz effect). I was just basically fooling around with this and then I noticed that after a few minutes of this when I resume my normal playing, the sound is really OPEN, it's really something. I've been using this as a part of my routine, but the effect kind of diminishes after I start doing other stuff, probably because I switch my attention more to other things.

So what am I actually doing here? How can I implement this effect more consciously to my playing? Does anybody use this as a part of their routine? If not, should they maybe?

Any ideas appreciated

Juho

Post Edited (2009-01-26 22:48)

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