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Seeking advice on true legato

Author: vjoet
Date: 2006-09-06 13:09

Only recently have I installed software to record my practice. I've noticed what is to me a glaring deficit. What I thought was coming out legato is, most often, actually a passing quickly over the notes without articulation.

I note Larry Guy's *The Daniel Bonade Workbook* contains pages on "legato fingering."

Those pages don't communicate to my way of thinking, though. I seems apparent that the speed of lifting or closing a tone hole must be swift, else those obnoxious "accidental gracenotes" will emerge.

To my way of thinking, it seems the solution to my problem would lie in Glenn Kantor's "playing the intervals, not the notes," and not in some type of finger ballet.

Perhaps for me the solution is the concept and application of legato fingering after all, and I'm just missing something in the concept. I don't know. I would like to correct the deficit before community band and orchestra start back in a couple weeks. So I'd appreciate any direction, comments or suggestions the members of this board can offer.

Thanks!
vJoe (amateur)

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Re: Seeking advice on true legato

Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2006-09-06 13:25

vJoe, Bonade's legato concept is very hard to communicate in the abstract, but I could demonstrate it to you in minutes. Suffice to say, most of the succesful major symphony clarinetists in the US have been indoctrinated in it either by Bonade or such "disciples" as Marcellus, Brody, Gigliotti, Gennusa, Bates, Portnoy etc etc.

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