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Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?

Author: Tony Pay ★2017 Date:   2013-11-09 21:40 Barry wrote: >> Tony , are you serious ? I'm getting a migraine just reading that verbose explanation. As I said above , I just 'bump' the notes with my breath and it seems to give the required effect. No need to THINK too hard about it. >> Well, I suppose I wrote what I did because I find that if I just 'bump' the notes with my breath, it DOESN'T give the required effect. Nor does it when I hear other people do it. What I want, and what I would say is often required, is a proper expression of the unity of the phrase that is represented by the slur. 'Bumping' breaks things up too much, partly because it's difficult to equalise a series of bumps on notes of varying response, but also because the player has limited control of the shape of each note with just the one direction of impulse. Whereas, in what I describe above, it's possible to use opposing forces to shape the notes really quite subtly. And the unity of the phrase is guaranteed by the fact that the consistency of the action of the 'blowing' muscles provides a constant point of reference for the overall phrase shape. It's a pity that a technique that is so simple to employ requires a deal of explanation before it can be communicated, I agree. The main problem is that excellent players who use it often don't understand exactly what they are doing, and the literature on the subject is so confused. (The difficulty, of course, is that the diaphragm is a muscle that contains no afferent nerves -- we can't feel it, in other words -- so when we use it in opposition to the blowing muscles we get no sensory feedback.) You might try reading: http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=20&i=714&t=714 Tony Post Edited (2013-11-09 22:21)

Topics	Author	Date
Staccatos Under A Slur?	Johnny Galaga	2013-11-09 01:19
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	DavidBlumberg	2013-11-09 02:08
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	davyd	2013-11-09 02:44
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	cigleris	2013-11-09 04:37
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-09 06:12
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Liquorice	2013-11-09 08:04
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Katrina	2013-11-09 12:39
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Lelia Loban	2013-11-09 15:26
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	DavidBlumberg	2013-11-09 15:55
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	MSK	2013-11-09 16:46
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	rmk54	2013-11-09 16:54
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-09 17:08
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Johnny Galaga	2013-11-09 19:14
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-09 20:12
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Liquorice	2013-11-09 20:14
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-09 21:07
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-09 21:40
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	kdk	2013-11-09 22:26
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-10 02:35
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	kdk	2013-11-10 03:55
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Andrez444	2013-11-10 08:29
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-10 12:17
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-10 15:43
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-10 17:48
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-10 18:06
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	kdk	2013-11-10 20:42
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Lelia Loban	2013-11-10 18:39
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-11 04:22
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	donald	2013-11-11 05:08
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	cigleris	2013-11-11 06:15
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-11 07:00
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-11 07:10
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-11 13:05
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Katrina	2013-11-11 14:42
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-11 16:42
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-11 18:02
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Barry Vincent	2013-11-11 20:25
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Arnoldstang	2013-11-11 21:33
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-11 21:41
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	DavidBlumberg	2013-11-11 23:03
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-11 23:54
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-11 17:46
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-12 10:22
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	DavidBlumberg	2013-11-12 13:54
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	DavidBlumberg	2013-11-12 13:55
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-12 14:13
Re: Staccatos Under A Slur?	Tony Pay	2013-11-12 18:49

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