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Re: relaxation

Author: bass9396
Date: 2005-12-02 23:44

It's all mental folks. I pound my students with the idea that they're smarter than me and can do anything. Which is true.

When you realize that everybody screws up (Harry Sparnaay, Larry Combs, Richard Stolzman, Michael Lowenstern, Eddie Daniels, whoever) you become immediately liberated to play anything, do anything, not care how tough it is. I have a student right now who is an excellent player(she made All-State in 8th grade, that says it all).....but the second she figures out she can do anything she will catapult over some excellent players in front of her simply due to her attitude.

We make the Clarinet seem so hard. We allow "academia" to mystify the instrument. Why? To what end? Why do we attack our students with exercises and methods that they could care less about when we could teach them a method that works for them? So we can have a discussion on the BBoard about tension? That's where it comes from folks......all those hours playing Klose page 123 when it wasn't doing anything for you.

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