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Re: Not able to play staccato

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-09-27 16:50

You may be making a puff of air from your abdomen when you start each note.

To check, rest the bell on your knee and play low C (with the left-hand fingers down). Rest your right hand on your abdomen, below your ribs and play a series of staccato notes at medium speed (say sixteenths at 60 bpm).

If you feel any abdominal pulse, that's slowing you down. The large muscles respond and move much slower than the small ones in your tongue.

Play a long tone and flick the tip of your tongue up, just MISSING the tip of the reed. Slowly move your tongue tip forward until it just brushes the reed. Concentrate on moving only your tongue, with no abdominal pulse.

Ken Shaw

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