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Re: Becoming a bass player in less than a month

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2018-02-14 18:05

My best advise is not to appoach it like a clarinet especially when you go above the staff. Keep your throat as opened, that's relaxed, as possible, voice more like the low register of a clarinet when you go up high, not like you might normaly do with your clarinet. It's imperative that the instrument does not leak and that the automatic register key works properly. I always suggest taking as much mouthpiece as you can and than back off little by little until you find your comfort spot. It's OK to be a little flexible, taking slightly more or less in the upper and lower registers, experiment. The higher you go the lower you should try to voice. Some people take to it easily and some don't, hopefully you will. As far as a mouthpiece and reed, if you have a choice try as many as possible, if you don't, try to match the reed to the MP as well as possible. Some take a stronger reed, others a softer reed, no way to tell you what you will need. Good luck.

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