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Re: articulation and bowing techniques

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-10-17 20:29

I think you just use your ears and don't worry about instructions. Listen to string players do the various bow strokes and find a way to imitate them on clarinet. For pizzicato, for example, you play an sfz followed by a subito piano and let it fade out quickly.

I'm called fairly often by string players to play 2nd violin or viola parts in string quartet reading session because I listened and learned to reproduce string articulations on clarinet. It's never prefect, but you can get close.

Also, you learn to do things that you haven't done before, not to mention playing the great string quartet literature.

Ken Shaw

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