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Re: Raising Finger when Breathing

Author: RLarm
Date: 2014-10-21 05:03

When I studied saxophone with a former student of Harvey Pittel he told me to lift my LH index and to pop it down just before making an entrance on a low C#, B or Bb and that it would make the note speak easier. He said that it was a flute technique that also worked for saxophone. During one of Don Sinta's studio classes that I attended during my studies with him he commented on this topic. He asked all of us to stop doing that because it caused an annoying pop and he wanted us to learn to play the low notes without using this distracting technique. However, I quickly noticed that everyone, including myself, continued to employ that technique when confronted with that low note entrance at a soft volume. I have never really thought about this since then until I saw the initial post on this topic. I went to YouTube and there it was with Martin Frost, using the same technique that I employed on saxophone. When I sat down and thought about it I realized I was doing the same thing on clarinet! I also realized that many of my clarinet teachers through the years employed this same technique. Monkey see, monkey do?????

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