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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-05-12 21:20
Interesting that several of you should mention tonguing on the corner. I have not tried that. My teacher did say, apropos of lighter tonguing, that I might think about touching just the bottom blade, rather than the whole tip.
She is also having me work from a complete half-note legato *backwards* into shorter and more detached articulations, to develop my awareness of keeping the legato going, even in staccato passages.
I tried the bottom blade thing today, and it has promise. It's just a little "frog flick" that is needed -- it really doesn't take much to stop the vibration, just like it really doesn't take much to start the vibration on a responsive reed.
I have gotten fairly reliable about doing as GMac says -- creating an initial sound which is pppp. I have found that a responsive reed is the sine qua non of this. Responsiveness is the *first* requirement in a good reed, really, and I don't understand why so many reeds one buys are so non-responsive.
My tonguing issue, I guess, is that I have not always used responsive reeds, and I have been getting all over-involved in the tonguing (hitting too hard, putting too much muscle into it), with the effect that I momentarily stop or decrease the air flow, and the sense of legato is either lost or absent altogether -- kind of a note-note-note-note-note thing, instead of a "line" of tone. (I'm good on really punched staccato, though. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif) )
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions, fellow travellers.
Susan
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ohsuzan |
2006-05-12 02:39 |
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sylvangale |
2006-05-12 05:59 |
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oboist |
2006-05-12 06:55 |
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oboeblank |
2006-05-12 16:56 |
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mschmidt |
2006-05-12 18:36 |
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GMac |
2006-05-12 17:54 |
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stevensfo |
2006-05-12 20:23 |
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vboboe |
2006-05-13 00:07 |
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ohsuzan |
2006-05-12 21:20 |
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sylvangale |
2006-05-13 23:48 |
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ohsuzan |
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HautboisJJ |
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wufus |
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sylvangale |
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vboboe |
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mschmidt |
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ohsuzan |
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mschmidt |
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Ken Shaw |
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ohsuzan |
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sylvangale |
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mschmidt |
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vboboe |
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mschmidt |
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Iridium77 |
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ohsuzan |
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mschmidt |
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ohsuzan |
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oboeblank |
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HautboisJJ |
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ohsuzan |
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