Author: oboeblank
Date: 2006-01-09 18:21
It sounds like you had a great time at the double reed weekend.
I used to articulate that way until I played for Richard Killmer and her almost had a heart attack! His method is this, and I think is works equally well as the method desribed above.
Say you are playing something in 4/4...
i) take a breath, fully, deeply on beat four through your mouth and...
ii) play!
His reasoning is a good one, by playing breathing in time you create a "backswing" with the air which makes the articulation much easier. You create a "backswing" with the above method also but I like the other way much more, it makes the breathing, articulation and release of the the note seem like one step instead of three individual and somewhat distinct steps to create sound.
The snort, sounds like what Mr. Bloom used to speak about, that the air needs to be 'forward and from the mask'. This is something that Mr. Killmer spoke of also, but the sensation that the air is coming from the bridge of your nose seems much easier to understand for me, anyway.
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