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Re: How to Playing a nice piano and tapering?

Author: maxopf
Date: 2014-10-23 10:18

Junior in high school here. I used to have the same problem with biting during piano passages and when I ran out of air. For me, it was because my reeds were way too hard for my mouthpiece - I got used to it and my tone was nice, but I would get red in the face when I played. When I tried to play piano, the sound would essentially become a sub-tone unless I bit, because I couldn't put enough air through the instrument (by biting, I lessened the tip opening, making it require less air - but also making my lip really sore and messing with my tone). Under a new teacher, I ended up switching mouthpieces and reeds around so I had a more free-blowing setup that gave me the same nice tone while not requiring undue force to play. Not sure if this is your problem though; 3.5s sound reasonable, though I have no idea how resistant M30 Lyres are.
I'm trying to think of how to describe not letting go of air support when playing quietly. I will get back to you if I think of a good metaphor or something. (I'm sure someone here will have a good way to describe it.)

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