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Re: Embouchure and articulation

Author: jam12
Date: 2018-08-17 08:34

Sorry for the late reply! I didn’t get emailed of your response...

I am very glad to know that my sound is now different for the better. I do really need to improve on my breath support. As of right now, I am truly making sure my embouchure is not flawed so I am sticking to a strength 3 reed and am not blowing aimlessly without staying conscious of what my mouth and tongue are doing.

The smiling is very ill advised as I have come to notice. I find that it is one of the only ways I can get my chin to be straight. Now again you said that my chin CAN be bumpy like Charles Niedich (the one video you sent me a while ago) but my lips have to be smooth over my top teeth, is that correct? How do I do this? From the videos, am I doing this? I feel as if the smiling right before I say “EWW” helps me with this.

To talk about proper breath support. My first question is, how do I breath in air efficiently and sufficiently? I have been told to breath “into my lower back” and fill up my stomach until my chest naturally rises. I was told NOT to breath shallow and let my chest rise. Also, I do do this abdomen clenching thing. I think Mr. Lowenstern said in one of his videos that I should feel the same thing as if I were to do a sit-up and pause halfway. But the punching thing is much easier to imagine and execute. By the way, I have a younger sister but she punches me as well I guess.

I still notice some lip movement from blowing. I have reduced this A LOT by opening my throat and by bringing the corners of my lips in. I still feel as if they move just a tiny bit whereas other clarinetists I have seen online don’t seem to have their lips move when blowing. It is very minimal now but I want your insight on it. Again, you said if something seems wrong do what I should do to remove it. By opening my throat and bringing the corners of my lips in, my sound is more focused and less nasally.

Jawad

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