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Re: Playing Clarinet with Weights On

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-04-27 00:19

The reed rotation is an interesting topic. I go through ALL the usable reeds in order for practice (the last two or three stinkers in a box don't really get played after break in but they stay with their peers). The performance reed (usu. 1-4) are the ONLY ones that get pulled for performance. But if number 4 is where I am for the day, that's the one that gets played.

When the rotation begins to sound the least bit brittle, it's time to break in the next batch.

As for purpously playing something harder to make "later" playing easier, I don't subscribe to this philosophy. There doesn't seem to be a valid reason to make things harder. It would only condition you to play worse in my opinion.

However, you CAN stress various techniques outside of your "comfort zone" to achieve this goal: LONG tone practice; wide interval practice; Opperman Intervalic studies; double/triple tonging exercises and excerpts.

................Paul Aviles

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