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 Re: Most often repeated 'lesson'
Author: Grabnerwg 
Date:   2005-05-21 00:14

To be told "work on your breath support" is a pretty meaningless.

I find that it's just too abstract, and has little applicability to the actual music that the student is playing, or the sound he or she is trying to make.

The real problem in not "breath support" but that the vast majority of students just do not blow enough air through the clarinet and/or sustain the air flow long enough. Most times this is heard at the end of phrases, where the tone and musical intensity die long before the phrase ends melodically or harmonically.

It's as if, nearing the end, the mind switches off and the body stops working. I call it the "OK, I'm done, syndrome." The air flow slows or stops before the music does.

Rather than saying work on "breath support", I DEMONSTRATE how to SUSTAIN the tone, during the phrase and at the end of phrases. Then I ask the student to do the same. I remind them that playing a wind instrument is hard physical work.

Walter Grabner
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