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Re: Relaxing while playing

Author: kdk
Date: 2017-04-12 20:17

BrianLundberg wrote:

> and best of
> all- I have the found freedom to sing.

I'm not sure Brian meant this literally, as distinct from "singing on the clarinet." But it brings up a point I didn't make before. Sometimes you need to imagine the music you're playing without having the technical demands of the instrument get in the way. Literally singing a passage can give you the freedom to conceptualize tempo and rhythm (even if you can't easily get the pitches right) more naturally. There are no tense fingers or pinching lip muscles to get in the way.

I know that many people get self-conscious when asked to sing around other people (getting my students to sing is hard even though I sing to them all the time), so this may be a practice technique best suited to the practice room when no one else is listening.

Karl

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