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Teaching to improve tone quality by showing it

Author: Audi-Graph
Date: 2010-01-11 18:00

Hi all. I’ve lurked on the boards for a while but decided to post and see what everyone thought of using acoustics and physics of sound as an educational approach to teaching sound quality.

I bring this up because of the difficulty we all have in explaining what sound is, and how to produce a good sound. Plus all those posts on recommendations on a new reed or upgrade the clarinet or ligature to make a good sound when a majority of it comes from player, not the horn. This came from some acoustics research I was doing when I worked for NASA.

This isn’t intended to be a product plug, but me sharing my teaching approach that seems to work with the tech savvy students.

Without getting too technical, it analyzes your sound so you can see the harmonic frequencies generated when you play. It shows timbre and tone quality. The software contains the recorded harmonic frequency patterns of some local symphony musicians across their chromatic scale. You practice to make the picture of your sound match the picture of their sound, and you sound the same.

http://www.audi-graph.com

It's basically like playing into a tuner, but it helps you develop a core fundamental sound against a professional example.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

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Anthony Vasser - audi-graph@audi-graph.com
http://www.audi-graph.com

Post Edited (2010-01-11 18:07)

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