Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2010-12-11 16:00
Your goal is to play well and sound good. Your teacher told you that you sounded better than you had sounded all semester. Apparently you had found a way to sound good by a means that did not match what your teacher professed--so what!!!!! Don't lose sight of the forest by focusing solely on trees (in this case, the various doctrines and rituals and types of equipment). Teachers, like parents, try to guide and are well meaning, but are not all- knowing. Some people prefer to play with a double lip embouchure, some others prefer to play with a single lip embouchure; you can find teachers in both camps. At university, you have the opportunity to learn and explore. Now's not the time to close your mind, to fail to question, or to think that every question has a right answer. As you move along, you'll find that there are few absolutes. You know that to get sound from a clarinet you must blow through it; but there are many ways to blow through it, and no one way is the right way. Is holding my clarinet close to my body as I play better than holding it further away? I don't know; I'll have to try it both ways. Maybe it sounds better for some passages to hold it one way, better in some passages to hold it another way.
Best wishes, and happy new year.
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