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Shooshie Mouthpiece Exercise/The Silencer

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2012-06-10 12:08

Does anyone do the Shooshie mouthpiece exercises on clarinet? Joe Allard apparently recommended them for sax:

http://www.bobrk.com/saxfaq/2.6.html
http://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthread.php?12997-Shooshie-s-Mouthpiece-Exercise

The Silencer http://www.jazzlab.com/en/ is said to facilitate the Shooshie exercises, not to mention permitting nearly silent practice. Has anyone tried it?

Ken Shaw

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Re: Shooshie Mouthpiece Exercise/The Silencer

Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2012-06-10 21:13

I took a lesson off Joe Allard many years back. It was about 3hours I think. We didn't touch on thi so I just tried the Shooshie on my clarinet mouthpiece....it is quite interesting to work on. I used a pitch of C. I don't know what it will achieve. Maybe I'll get better . I do remember Joe had me playing the upper octave notes on sax and then forcing them down without removing the octave key. The essential idea I think was to find how much colour is available to you in a given note. Maybe this works for clarinet too.

Freelance woodwind performer

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