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Emma Johnson on Basics

Author: knotty
Date: 2015-11-15 02:54

I never ran across Emma's Youtube before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bHHZ7HbiNw&list=PL606233D81280A6FB&index=1

~ Musical Progress: None ~

Post Edited (2015-11-15 02:55)

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Re: Emma Johnson on Basics

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-11-15 03:23

Looked through the first four - not bad.

I take issue with the idea that the position of the mouthpiece in your mouth is a matter of comfort, or rather an arbitrary point. It really is quite dependent on the length of the lay and their is one ideal spot on a particular mouthpiece for the embouchure of that one particular person.

Of course Emma Thompson did also recommend the squishy thumb rest (looks like the Protec Gel model)........so I forgive her.

.............Paul Aviles

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Re: Emma Johnson on Basics

Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-11-15 03:42

Emma Thompson is an actress: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000668/?ref_=nv_sr_4

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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Re: Emma Johnson on Basics

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-11-15 12:42

Oops ............guess I was watching the wrong videos :-)

thanks for the correction !

...............Paul Aviles

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Re: Emma Johnson on Basics

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2015-11-16 00:06

Afraid I was not very impressed with the bits I watched. Definitions were very skimpy especially on lip and embouchure. Lip over lower teeth? how much? how do you tell what is right for you etc.

And in the first video where she assembles the clarinet grasping hands all over the keywork she is doing everything I advise young (and no so young) players to avoid.

Problem is that with her profile amongst younger inexperienced players they will be inclined to assume that she must be the expert in all these matters!

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Re: Emma Johnson on Basics

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-11-16 00:13

Not bad for an actress though.

Ha, ha! Just referring to my earlier faux Paul.

..............Paul Aviles

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Re: Emma Johnson on Basics

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2015-11-16 02:55

I wouldn't really expect much at all from her for basics.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com

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