Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-09-19 04:59
You should listen to as much clarinet playing as you can to form a sound concept in your own mind. You're the one who makes the sound, not the master teacher. You're the one who has to translate what the teacher tells you (words) into the physical actions you do to create the clarinet's sound. What comes out of your instrument is your doing, not any teacher's.
Think back to what the teacher said to you. How did you apply it? Did applying it make a difference? If not, did you ask him why your trying to apply his instructions didn't change anything. Obviously, none of us was in the studio to hear what the teacher said or how you used it.
Teaching and learning are separate but closely related processes. Teaching is about diagnosis and guidance (or for some teachers, prescription). Learning is about actively solving problems, ideally with the teacher's help. He can diagnose your weaknesses and give you his best guidance. But if you reject his guidance or misunderstand and misapply it, you probably won't improve. If he misjudges the reasons - misdiagnosis - of whatever weaknesses (symptoms) he hears in your playing, his guidance won't help you because he's curing the wrong disease.
> Do I have any talent for the clarinet? Should I go
> to another teacher or would I be wasting my time
> having no improvements?
We can't have any idea if you're talented or not. Going to another teacher might bring a better result or it might not. Sometimes one teacher is better than another at diagnosing specific problems in a student's approach. Some teachers are better than others at expressing their suggestions in trying to guide the student to solutions. Some teachers' personal styles clash with those of their students and the relationship becomes adversarial. Your progress with any teacher will depend partly on how you relate to each other, how effectively the teacher expresses himself and how receptive you are to what he tells you.
But, aside from what you do about a teacher, you need to be the one who ultimately solves whatever problems exist in your playing. To do that you need first to decide what the problems are. What do you want to sound like? What is it about your current sound that falls short? The same thing applies to all the other aspects of playing - articulation, finger technique, etc.. You can't solve problems you don't hear, and you can't hear problems you aren't carefully listening for. Having a teacher point to the problems from an objective viewpoint can help, but he or she can't eliminate the need for you to be actively listening to your own playing to decide what improvements are needed.
Karl
Karl
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