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Re: Martin Fröst strikes again!

Author: Liquorice
Date: 2010-08-24 06:13

William- I disagree...

A hum can inly come through your nose. If you open your mouth it becomes "singing".

I'm familiar with the technique of singing while playing. But here Fröst seems to be doing something else. I think that he's humming (through the nose) while playing, in order to get more volume without distorting the clarinet tone (as in the growl often used by jazz players). This is why he has to only do it when he keeps the clarinet tone going with the puffed air from his cheeks.

It doesn't sound to me like the humming IN which Tony describes.

I tried doing what I think Fröst is doing, and it worked. It's not too difficult to produce a hum while keeping the clarinet tone going with the air from the cheeks. But what IS difficult is to coordinate humming, playing from puffed cheeks, and finding all the right notes in both your hum and your playing! Will also need another few years practise...

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