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Re: Warming Up Before Concert

Author: g81gr
Date: 2017-02-25 10:34

From my point of view the warm up is something really personal... You have to know yourself, what is the first thing that gives you up in a performance??? Do your finger get tired firstly?? is it your embouchure?? your diaphram?? your mind?? your reed?? Feel the stage, breath the air, feel the moisture and the temperature, and then you decide what to do.

Here in Crete, we do a lot of outdoor appearances, so every time the needs are different... We have a lot of fluctuations in moisture, wind and temperature even during the event... So, in a cold day, i do mostly finger warm up, in a hot day mostly diaphram. Also in our case the moisture is an issue espesially in wooden clarinets, so, if we have a lot of moisture i bring the plastic clarinet (backun alpha) otherwise the wooden one (yamaha 450) or in some cases i bring them both... Once we played in a square (extra hot day and really high moisture) and no one could maintain their clarinet in tune, only the ones with the plastic one...Brass didn't have that much trouble...

All in all, i think that clarinet warm up is more something of been prepared for what you are about to find in the stage than arrive early and play some notes. But everyone is different and feels different about a live event.

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