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Author: Nick
Date: 2001-05-17 03:10
I am working on two jazz clarinet solos that Artie Shaw made famous. The Stardust solo and the Bigin the Beguine solo. I am haveing problems. I tried some other tricks that I learned on other horns, but I can't get it to sound right. Any ideas on method books or somthing else I could try?
Thanks.
Happy Playing and Doubling
Nick
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-05-17 16:02
I love to introduce "schmerandos" into the slow Dixie tunes, holding below pitch as long as possible, but havent been very successful with "Began the Begoon" or G's Raphsody gliss's, just "do'ing what comes nachurly". Luck, Don
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-05-17 16:03
Nick -
Artie Shaw played on a white plastic mouthpiece (a Brillhardt, I believe) and *very* soft reeds. He wrote that for much of his career, he used a plastic reed. That kind of setup makes a "classical" tone difficult, but AS wasn't after that. It makes the smears much easier. You just relax and let the instrument play itself.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Suzanne
Date: 2001-05-20 03:52
Try bending the pitch down from (thumb) high C down to about the pitch of G or so, only fingering the C, just using your embouchure... try it up and down. When you have mastered that, start on 6-finger D and slide your fingers off the horn up to the thumb-C (either right or left, whatever you prefer) while doing the same thing with your embouchure... it's almost like an "errrrrrrr" syllable... that gets the best smears for me. A softer reed helps, but it doesn't need to be tissue paper, and I have been able to do it without really sacrificing a more "classical" sound...
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