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Why start low?

Author: Matt74
Date: 2022-12-09 05:47

I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that the predominant pedagogy for woodwinds is to begin with the first register. It makes obvious sense when someone is just beginning to blow, but I'm not sure after that. I'm also under the impression that a lot of people think "getting a good sound" in the first register is important before before moving to the second, as if your second register tone is dependent on your first.

That last part I disagree strongly with as a player, because when you ignore he upper register you don't learn to bring out the upper partials. In effect, you mute them. The result is that it's harder to learn to cross the break. You end up with a dull tone, and have problems in the upper register

I don't actually remember this from my lessons as a kid.

Is learning the first register before going on to the second a pedagogical "thing", or is it something that people make up when they are self-taught as adults?

- Matthew Simington

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