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Author: Oded Cohen
Date: 2009-01-26 07:26
I can play the lower part of altissimo register, up to F, and F# with effort; cannot go higher than that. Any advices?
Thanks,
Oded
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-01-26 14:03
The best advise anyone can give you is to take lessons. There are so many factors involved it's impossible to tell you over a post. Clarinet problem, mouthpiece, reed, support, throat, tongue position, embouchure. Take your choice of any number combination of those things and that could be your problem. ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2009-01-26 16:07
I agree with Prof Palanker. There is just too much going on inside of you, invisible, that needs an expert to sort out.
A small help might be to get a fingering chart, send the dog outside, and fiddle, fiddle, fiddle experimenting with all those things Ed mentioned --and maybe some we've overlooked.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Oded Cohen
Date: 2009-01-26 20:07
Thanks - about taking lessons, I start again next week;
about taking the dog outside - he rather enjoys joining me in the altissimo, he probably thinks I am hawling to the moon...
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Author: William
Date: 2009-01-26 21:42
As you attempt those higher notes, try raising the back of your tongue as if imitating a cats hiss. This should focus and accelorate your air towards the tip of the reed. Also, try giving a little extra upward pressure with your right thumb. This should force the mpc into your embouchre and firm it up if it is on the loose side. These suggestions are just a shot in the cyberspace--good luck.
BTW, when I play my instruments, my two dogs--choc & yellow labs--just lie down and go to sleep (like some of my audiencies). However, if a police car should turn its siren on in the middle of the night, the yellow feels it necessary to join in and wakes us all.
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Author: Pappy
Date: 2009-01-26 23:55
William wrote:
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> BTW, when I play my instruments, my two dogs--choc & yellow
> labs--just lie down and go to sleep (like some of my
> audiencies). However, if a police car should turn its siren on
> in the middle of the night, the yellow feels it necessary to
> join in and wakes us all.
I have 4 dogs - 3 Bichons and a Standard Poodle. One Bichon sings with me every time I practice. She can match pitches and especially loves the altissimo and scales and glisses.
On getting the high notes to speak - I've gotten a lot of good stuff from a couple of books recently acquired from Gary Van Cott. "The Altissimo Register - A Partial Approach by Paul Druschler and John Gibson's "Advanced Intonation". The former take a bit of staring at and playing around with but starting with fundamental and working your way through all of the partials is a great way to gain better control of the upper altissimo - at least for me.
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