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 Re: Embouchure and articulation
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2018-07-06 02:16

Hey "jam12,"


I did want to take one more shot at this since you speak about how you wish to be more competitive in the future.


In the videos you exhibit a bit of a "smile" embouchure. This is counterproductive since you are pulling 'up and back' instead of 'down and back.' It takes away from much of the effort you expend. Your mouth should be formed more like your are saying "ewww" (as if you just smelled something bad). Excuse my fumbling for a printable description!

That said, there really need not be much of any expenditure of energy in the embouchure at all! So having more strength in your lips is NOT an issue.

To get back to the tongue, I am now guessing that you feel the entire reed against your tongue. The tongue should be further back in your mouth so that the only part of the tongue touching the reed (and that would only be the tip of the reed) would be the very "tip" of the tongue (or as much of a point as you can muster).

Listen more carefully to recordings of good clarinetists (ie Ricardo Morales). There is a bell like quality to the sound and a "ping" to articulations. Where you are now is really quite far from that. HOWEVER, as I said before, once you are using techniques that don't get in your way, you will begin to improve much, much more quickly.



..........given in the spirit of being helpful, not judgemental,



.............................Paul Aviles
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