Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-02-03 18:59
What's the best way, and most diplomatic way of letting someone know you don't like their tone as they have no tone, and they need to improve drastically before they make my ears bleed without causing them any offense?
It's just that I'm at a stage now where I'm sat next to several players who just shrieks out the high notes (if not every note) regardless of tone quality and tuning, they can't be completely oblivious to the fact but just don't have any inclination to improve, but I just feel like it's about time they realised they're not doing themselves or anyone any good if they carry on like they've been doing for a long time, and improvement isn't a bad thing.
I know they're only playing for their own enjoyment, but the experience will be more enjoyable and rewarding if only they knew what they sound like and then bettered themselves knowing they are producing a tone of worth - I was hoping now I've come into the band I'd have liked to set an example of how a clarinet should sound - full, smooth and free from shrillness as opposed to thin, weak, LOUD, flat and intensely jarring on the ear.
Seems they've got their heads buried and ears closed to any influence - I've drawn influence from various sources and hope to repay that by producing the best sound I can as I feel I have a debt to the world's greatest as they've set the standards (of which there are too many to name), and influencing others along the way.
But at the same time I don't want to risk becoming unpopular - I want to help get the best out of these people, but do this in a way that they will understand and realise I have their best intentions at heart.
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