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Re: Improving Legato

Author: hautbois
Date: 2006-11-14 19:38

You might try two things. First, in practice, (and assuming that your fingers are operating smoothley) imagine that you are making a small cresc. at the end of each note (without actually making one) and continuing into the next note -- it is more like an increase in intensity than an actual dynamic effect, and it will keep you from making unintended reductions in breath support at the end of each note. Then modify that effect enough to keep the line from having irregular swells, but maintain the intensity. Feel lugubrious! Second, take a look at your reed. The sustaining of a note (as opposed to the initial attack) requires a certain amount of cane to be taken off of the back of the heart of the reed, blending with the heart and with the deeper windows behind the heart (on an American scrape). Of course if the reed is out of balance in other respects the problem could be in other places as well.

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