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 Re: LOL-The easiest way to sound 100% better on the Clarinet
Author: earspasm 
Date:   2015-11-30 16:23

Hi guys.

As usual, I'm required to explain my motivation behind one of my videos:

I'M MAKING A JOKE. THIS IS SATIRE.

I'm not saying that standing still is a good idea. I move around like a freaking moron when I play. WAY more than I lampoon in this video. Watch my performances and you'll see I have a few ticks of my own. More than a few.

And if you've ever watched my masterclass videos that I've posted -- or seen me give one -- you will know that I absolutely require that people move (naturally) when they play music. It helps give music the life it needs, or it will invariably sound wooden.

<Rant>

Clarinet players please, please, please. Music is not meant to be taken so seriously. Let's not take ourselves so seriously when we discuss it either. We're not curing cancer here.

(That's why I like to remind myself that it's called "PLAYING" music.)

Michael

</Rant>

JKL wrote:

> If you look at some other videos of this guy you will see that
> he ist always tempted to do in his own perfomances things which
> he is lampooning in this satirical video (notice that he is
> limited in movements by playing bass clarinet!). So it would be
> VERY stupid to take his advice to constrict your body movements
> (which is obviously his notion of "correct" playing behind the
> irony) literally as ideal for YOUR playing.
> I am a player who likes - even loves - to move while playing. I
> think there are two aspects of movements:
> It is clear for me that a physical action (for example moving
> the fingers on the clarinet for a scale) is more precise when
> it happens within a superordinated action (for example moving
> the body). Notice for example a tennis player expecting the
> service of his opponent - there would be no advanced player who
> would NOT move his body in this particular situation!
> The second aspect is that your body DOES express emotions.
> there is no emotion which don't has an exterior, no emotion
> which has no physical equivalent. Why subdue this when playing
> clarinet?
> So the only advice of this video is: be yourself, don't do
> things with are not coherent or harmonious with yourself.
>
> JKL
>

>
> Post Edited (2015-11-30 13:10)

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