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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2008-12-17 15:44
Set your challenging passages aside for a while.
Do this for a few minutes to several days:
Play G3 (below middle C); get it sounding solid; punch the register key and let the horn "squeak up" to D5 (4th line) --sluring. Repeat (going up only, do not try to come back down). While doing this check your embouchure and keep fiddling with it until you can make this leap without changing anything.
When you can make the G-D leap, you know that your fingers are covering the tone holes. You know that you can cover the tone holes, and you have a good starting point for your embouchure.
Now make all the other 1-1/2 octave leaps: {A3->E5, Bb3->F#5, BNatural->F5, etc}
Use these leaps to solidify your embouchure.
Now go back down the horn and bring in the pinky keys. Use both left and right hand fingerings. Do {Left F#3->C#5, Right F#3->C#5, Left F->C, Right F->C, Left E3->B, Right E->B}. If these "pinky key" jumps are not speaking as quickly as those made with just your fingers, you need the sort of adjustments (or pad replacements) suggested by previous replies.
Now you know that your instrument, your embouchure, and your fingers are all working.
The next thing is two things. Play a low register note, switch to a lower note and punch the register key. If the clarion register doesn't speak, you've probably misplaced a finger, and you've got a leak on a tone hole. You know which fingers to check (those you put down just before punching the register key). Try again.
The second of the two things is to go back to those sticky places in your exercises and apply what you've just learned to your lesson:
Fingers covering tone holes;
Embouchure properly set;
Later go back and practice the leaps tonguing the upper notes, and then start learning how to get back down --the instrument doesn't like doing that, so start the downward leaps by tonguing the lower note.
Patience. I had a fabulous alto sax player fail in her attempt to cover the tone holes on her clarinet. SIGH BUT, you're better than that.
And, remember, Practice Makes Permanent!
Bob Phillips
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