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producing a chord without humming other notes

Author: metalheadsimon
Date: 2011-04-25 15:16

Hey guys,

Upon a recent lesson with my teachers colleague (filled in due to illness) i was given an embouchere exercise, where i was to finger a Bottom F while holding down the A key at the top of the instrument. This produces a perfect 4th chord consisting of a g in the stave and the c above it when the embouchere is right. When the embouchere is looser you can make the g more prominent and tighter the C more prominent, and this has enabled me to learn how to control my embouchere better in regards of my playing.

Im just curious if anyone else knows any fingerings like this or has a link to it, as a friend is interested in the concept and is looking to include these ideas into his compositions

thanks again for all the help guys

Simon Cowton

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Re: producing a chord without humming other notes

Author: cigleris
Date: 2011-04-25 15:31

This is not a new concept. I would start with trying to get hold of Bartolotzzi's New Sounds for Woodwind. Experimentation is also a good start.

Peter Cigleris

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Re: producing a chord without humming other notes

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-04-25 18:16

The Bartolozzi appears to be out of print. The lowest price I've found is £37.00 ($61.07) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/019318611X/ref=nosim/1557.

The standard book is Rehfeldt, New Directions for Clarinet, http://www.vcisinc.com/clarinet.htm item C034.

Van Cott also has:
Caravan, Preliminary Exercises & Etudes in Contemporary Techniques for Clarinet, item C040

Zelinsky, Studies for Playing Avant-Garde Music, item C361

Players who specialize in contemporary music tell me that practicing multiphonics is great for learning voicing and greatly improves their control in traditional music.

Ken Shaw

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Re: producing a chord without humming other notes

Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-04-25 18:22

There are quite a few intervals you can get when the upper register and lower register notes are both fighting for the same spot, intervals from a semitone and larger using special multiphonic fingerings and embouchures.

Same applies to flute, oboe, sax and bassoon - on the bassoon there are some multiphonics that give the illusion of notes lower than bottom Bb due to the beat frequency.

For oboe multiphonics, see Leon Goossens' book. Jack Brymer's book in the same series doesn't have any multiphonic fingerings.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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Re: producing a chord without humming other notes

Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2011-04-25 18:37

Here are two sites with some fingerings and sounds (there are many more than found on these sites, but it's a start for you):

http://www.clarinet-multiphonics.org/clarinet-multiphonics.html

http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/clarinet/cl_mult_1.html

Tom Piercy

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Re: producing a chord without humming other notes

Author: Amalton543
Date: 2011-04-25 23:27

Post Edited (2011-04-25 23:29)

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Re: producing a chord without humming other notes

Author: Amalton543
Date: 2011-04-25 23:29

This is an excellent resource. http://userpages.umbc.edu/~emrich/clarinet21.html

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