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Used double lip today

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2011-11-10 01:07

Thinking about switching to double lip (at least for sit-down gigs) I was a little bored today and feeling like trying something new so I decided to use double lip for our concert band rehearsal today. Sounded fine, articulated and played fine. I think I'll continue experimenting with using it and maybe keep it double lip for sitting down and single lip for marching/standing.

If you haven't tried it, it removes some of the head vibration from the clarinet mouthpiece (much like a thick mouthpiece patch) and so I felt I could hear a little more clearly what I actually sound like. It was also very stable and produced a very stable thumb C and altissimo notes.

If you haven't tried it, give it a shot. I'm gonna check out Tom Ridenour's youtube videos on double lip and I know there's some frequent posters on here that use double lip.

Alexi

I also got a little bored waiting for drill band rehearsal so I watched a michele gingras podcast and tried out the "teeth on reed" to see just how high a pitch you get. Pretty high. High enough that others pleaded with me to stop. Dolphin-communication high. Kinda fun if you haven't done it. Some of the techniques and exercises she mentions in that podcast are an good and I can accomplish them, and then some of the others make my logical brain want to explode because it doesn't make any SENSE to hold one overtone while wiggling your fingers around and show them having NO effect on it at all. She musta been bored too at some point to figure THAT out!!!

US Army Japan Band

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