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Author: Constantine
Date: 2012-06-30 17:41
I've spent the morning listening to a bunch of different jazz songs, including several renditions of the Artie Shaw concerto, and it made me realize how little i know about bending. (i don't know how accurate the statement is) But i was told once that you can bend and entire octave changing only your embrasure. Any help on where to learn to do this would be great.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-06-30 22:40
While keeping a fairly similar embouchure throughout (but making some minor adjustments in lip pressure), you can use the tongue and throat muscles to bend the notes in a similar way as doing a rising and falling whistle.
Feel how your throat and tongue move when you do that and then try it on an upper register note on clarinet (eg. an upper register note between G and C) as the upper register is far more flexible to doing lip bends than the lower register.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2012-06-30 23:48
I can't bend an octave. Maybe I never will be able to. But what Chris said hits home. If you'd like to work on it, start with those upper octaves. Also, make sure you keep good airspeed. Don't let the airspeed die while you're experimenting with tongue and throat muscles. Once you can bend at all, start working on controlling it (the speed of the bend, how far you can bend an individual note, etc.)
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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