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 Re: Relevance of long tones??
Author: Ed 
Date:   2016-04-21 16:20

While I respect David Hattner's fine playing and musicianship, I see things a little differently. I don't think tone study has to be a huge part of one's practice time.

As to tone colors, I would think of it as the ability to mold your sound in many ways. Make it sound more like an oboe or flute or other instrument, create a penetrating intense sound, a sound that may have a little less character to blend and melt into an ensemble, work to develop a sound with more or less overtones, etc. There are countless variations one can come up with. Use your musical judgement when playing to determine what character best fits the piece you are playing. Experiment with slight variances in air, embouchure, vocal cavity to see how they affect the tone.

There is an interesting video with Don Menza showing differences that he can achieve in tone on his sax to emulate different players. Some of it is about how he musically approaches each passage, but also how he alters his playing to get different tones or colors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oc0VzGBPxY

It is likely that you would use a more subtle approach in a classical setting on clarinet, but he makes some good points.
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