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Not able to play staccato

Author: SRK  Date:   2014-09-23 19:40 Hello, everyone! I'm new to this forum but have been lurking since I started playing the clarinet (a bit over half a year ago) and want to thank this wonderful community for providing me with some valuable information. I'm a beginner clarinet player from Russia and so far have been progressing quite nicely (that is according to my teacher, to my ears I still sound horrible ) My main problem at the moment is playing clear and accurate staccato. My tonguing is completely fine but when it comes to staccato...Sometimes I squeak and sometimes the sound is fuzzy or god knows what. I can't figure out what the problem is really...Have tried everything. For instance, I like doing the following exercise: playing a scale with tonguing a note twice then playing the following note staccato and so on... But it doesn't seem to help. Is playing staccato supposed to be this hard to articulate beautifully? Especially if one's tonguing is already well developed? My teacher just says keep your embouchure tight without twitching or moving your muscles. Well, that's not good advice because I'm already doing it. If you can recommend some good videos that teach this skill please do, I'm desperate to improve this technique.... Maybe I will record myself staccatoing and tonguing the same notes as soon as I can so that the problem can be identified correctly.

Topics	Author	Date
Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-23 19:40
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Katrina	2014-09-23 20:02
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-23 20:25
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-23 21:29
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-24 02:47
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-24 17:19
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-24 21:05
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-24 22:21
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-24 06:49
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-24 21:36
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-25 19:05
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-25 21:20
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	D Dow	2014-09-25 22:09
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Tony Pay	2014-09-27 09:04
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-27 13:44
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Ken Shaw	2014-09-27 16:50
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-30 18:03
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Tony Pay	2014-09-28 22:15
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	maxopf	2014-09-30 18:36

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