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The 'feel' of the clarinet

Author: g3clrnt
Date: 2012-08-18 15:41

So there have been some rather technical posts about clarinet technique, especially regarding its relationship to acoustics, which I'm a total nerd/fan of but...
In learning anything, and bringing the lessons back to the practice room, there has got to be a lot of trial and error, to allow the ear to find a lot of error and variance to make an assessment on how close you get to your standard, which is I'm assuming comes from the teacher or something the teacher recommended.
It's the 'feel' that the teacher is always constantly trying to teach, especially since the clarinet is an intra-oral activity.
I came across this really cool article about language and learning which aptly describes the fundamental type of learning when one practices, implicit learning, which is why young children an speak without having studied a language.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/01/remember-more-without-trying/

I think it's really important not to get too technical in offering advice to insecure and young clarnetists, it will interfere with their implicit learning in the practice room, because their standard will then have become the science/acoustic of the instrument rather than the memory example of what you provided for them in the lesson. I often get from students who come in to the next lesson, "I read this and...". "So and so said this..." there will always be a disconnect beween practicing/ using your ear and the language of practicing.

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