Author: brycon
Date: 2023-03-22 23:08
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I especially welcome opinions from those who have gone through the learning curves of both double lipping and single lipping, because they can contrast and compare.
It doesn't matter.
If you're setting out on relearning the clarinet, don't worry about it and just get to work on what does matter: playing phrases singingly, having good intonation and rhythm, etc.
What type of embouchure you use or even what etude and scale books you use doesn't matter. It's like fussing over high-end ski bindings when you can't even parallel ski: again, it doesn't matter.
My advice, as someone with very well-developed single- and double-lip embouchures, would be to think of your music education journey in terms of a triage system: 1.) must know, 2.) should know, and 3.) could know. Most the advice here centers around number 3. A clarinetist, for instance, could know that there have been throughout history different approaches to embouchure and he or she could perhaps try some out. Playing singingly, in tune, and in rhythm, however, are must know things. And until a clarinetist can do these things, single-lip versus double-lip, just like Baermann scales versus Klose scales, doesn't matter. And until students reorient their thinking about must know, should know, and could know things and prioritize properly, they'll remain in a state of arrested development.
Post Edited (2023-03-22 23:09)
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