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Re: Embouchure and articulation

Author: jam12
Date: 2018-07-05 23:43

Thanks nellsonic, I appreciate your time.

First of all, I have checked out Michelle Anderson and she has helped me tremendously. I just can't believe that I didn't realize that I was doing something wrong. I am normally conscious of my mistakes but this totally went over my head until recently. I was just watching her today as well as yesterday. It's more embarrassing because she has so many embouchure videos and even videos on backun's channel about tonguing!

I am using Backun Protege. I have an m13 mouthpiece with a V21 3.5 reed. I got this almost a year ago and before that I had a random student clarinet with a mouthpiece that came with the clarinet. I am pretty the mouthpiece isn't damaged. I can remember that when I first tried playing the protege, I wasn't able to get any sound. Maybe there was some resistance compared to my student model causing me to change my embouchure and my tongue position to generate that extra force in order to get a sound. I think that stuck with me.

Now, back to the present. I am able to get a sound out of the clarinet when I have a little bit of mouthpiece in my mouth (no tongue, just by blowing). If my lips were stronger, then maybe more mouthpiece would work but as of now, I struggle with a little bit in my mouth. With my current tongue position and embouchure, I can almost get the entire mouthpiece into my mouth and cause no squeaks but obviously this doesn't matter unless if I were to keep my current embouchure. Then, there would be a fuller tone due to more mouthpiece and I guess, more reed to vibrate.

Are you suggesting that I work on my embouchure for an hour then have a break then work on my embouchure for another hour then another break then again work on it for an hour again (and it goes on depending how much I want to work on it) for a day for many days over the summer? Or just work on it for an hour a day 7 days a week?

Thank you so much for encouraging me. I was slightly disheartened, not going to lie.

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