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Re: Not able to play staccato

Author: SRK  Date:   2014-09-24 17:19 KDK, Yes, this is exactly what I meant. You wrote: "That you are only having trouble with "staccato," which I take to mean short notes'' Yes. Basically, anything where I have to tongue thinking about the syllable TUT which makes a note short. I mean when I do TU-TU-TU-TU it all sounds fine but as soon as I introduce a short gap between the notes by keeping the tongue on the tip of the reed for some time, doing TUT-TUT-TUT, strange things start happening My teacher is an amazing Russian clarinetist but so far his reaction has been that of complete bafflement. Last time I insisted that I want to improve my staccato tonguing in order to be more confident when playing musically but I guess he doesn't want me to get frustrated at such an early stage of my playing so he just said that playing staccato requires strong embouchure support and muscles, thus it takes time to develop. But it just doesn't make sense to me. Paul Aviles, Thank you I will try to do what you have written and will inform you guys of my progress. P.S. The thing that upsets me even more is that when I used to play trumpet my staccato tonguing was just fine and I never even considered it as something much different from regular tonguing....But now it seems like there is some kind of psychological barrier occurring...

Topics	Author	Date
Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-23 19:40
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Katrina	2014-09-23 20:02
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-23 20:25
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-23 21:29
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-24 02:47
Re: Not able to play staccato	SRK	2014-09-24 17:19
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-24 21:05
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	kdk	2014-09-24 22:21
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-24 06:49
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-24 21:36
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-25 19:05
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-25 21:20
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	D Dow	2014-09-25 22:09
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Tony Pay	2014-09-27 09:04
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Paul Aviles	2014-09-27 13:44
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Ken Shaw	2014-09-27 16:50
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	SRK	2014-09-30 18:03
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	Tony Pay	2014-09-28 22:15
Re: Not able to play staccato  new	maxopf	2014-09-30 18:36

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