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Re: Staccato stumbles

Author: SecondTry  Date:   2023-09-13 22:12 I'm biased towards Tom H's reply. Maybe it's because Russianoff too was my teacher. But I also think it's because of my belief that good Staccato isn't solely a tonguing issue, but one of coordination with the fingers. The introduction of exercises that start by using the same note, before switching to an adjacent one, I think, just as Tom disccusses, help build this finger tongue relationship. An anecdote: I can't count how many times I see a student fumble at taking the 3rd movement of the Mozart Concerto staccato over legato not because there tongue wasn't up to speed, but rather because it wasn't in coordination with their fingers, revealed with reductions in metronome speed. Yes, setup and mouthpiece and reed all play into it, bet time is best spent on what we can control: our abilities.

Topics	Author	Date
Staccato stumbles  new	Clarinetpassion98	2023-09-04 15:21
Re: Staccato stumbles  new	Paul Aviles	2023-09-05 00:50
Re: Staccato stumbles  new	Tom H	2023-09-06 04:43
Re: Staccato stumbles  new	WoodsyBloom	2023-09-06 08:13
Re: Staccato stumbles  new	Micke Isotalo	2023-09-06 13:18
Re: Staccato stumbles  new	m1964	2023-09-06 20:06
Re: Staccato stumbles  new	Paul Aviles	2023-09-06 16:07
Re: Staccato stumbles  new	Philip Caron	2023-09-12 01:20
Re: Staccato stumbles	SecondTry	2023-09-13 22:12

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