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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-05-18 14:01
Here's an exercise I've recommended several times on the clarinet board. It comes from Bob Lowrey, who was an excellent clarinetist and a well known clinician when I was in high school. It works for me on oboe as well as clarinet.
Play a secure note (say, low G), starting it mezzo forte with the breath. Then, make the syllable LA, LA, LA, but don't let your tongue touch the reed. You want to just barely miss. Move the syllable forward gradually, so that you touch the reed only for an instant, producing the smallest possible "tic" in the sound.
Work on this until you can do it consistently and evenly. Then move to scales, beginning slowly and working the speed up gradually. The feeling should be that of your tongue sweeping - almost bouncing - across the reed, but never stopping. The breath and the sound never stop.
Once you get this extremely light action under control, it's easy to make it more forceful. Equally important, you teach yourself to play with a continuous tone, which is interrupted by the tongue, without interrupting the effort of moving the air stream. This avoids the problems that come when you think of the tongue as what starts the tone, rather than stopping it.
Ken Shaw
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