Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-10-23 02:18
yeahhhboiieslice wrote:
> My new teacher wants me to darken my tone...like a lot. He says
> I have a very France sound, but he wants to me have an American
> one.
It's hard to know even what he means by this. Ask him for several examples of recorded symphony players who exemplify what he wants you to produce. Also, maybe, a few "France" sounding players. (I'd be a little surprised, btw, if he names any French players who are still actively playing.)
> I don't like my new
> teacher's sound.
This is a really very telling comment. If you don't like his sound and he doesn't like yours, then your two choices IMO are to get him to leave your sound alone for now and go on to other areas of playing or to find a more compatible teacher. Some teachers can be very dogmatic, and yours may be too inflexible to slow down and encourage change more gradually.
> Like my last lesson he told me every
> clarinetist in a Symphony Orchestra doesn't have a tone like
> mine,
Assuming your last teacher had a reasonably musical ear and that you and he were genuinely pleased with your sound, this seems like a foolishly broad generalization. For one thing, no two clarinetists whatever their level or type of playing they do, sound alike, so the bald fact that you don't sound the same as "every clarinetist in a Symphony Orchestra" is a little silly on at least two different levels.
> What's wrong with a bright tone? Am I the only one who doesn't
> go crazy over a dark clarinet sound?
I can only guess what either you or your teacher means by "dark" and "bright," although I suspect I know what he means. But there is plenty of variation in sound among American clarinetists and there really isn't one single overall tone concept that is universally in vogue today. Who sounds more "American" - Ricardo Morales or Richard Stolzman? It would be interesting, maybe, to know who specifically your current teacher thinks represents a "typical" American sound of today.
Karl
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