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Re: Tips for playing altissimo register

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-09-21 07:11

Plonk wrote:

> Karl,
> While I don't disagree with most of what you say, are there not
> occasions when you have to do *something* more than change
> fingers? Slurring down from top F to the Ab a 6th below springs
> to mind. If I simply add my 1st finger for the Ab, the top F
> continues (out of tune) so I have to "think" the Ab with my
> diaphragm and voicing or it won't sound. What do you do?

Usually lightly touch the reed with my tongue. Slurring to a lower harmonic in the same series (such as F6 to Ab5) is, I think, a special case, though.

And, again, it isn't that I do nothing to cross breaks. Whatever I do, it's done before I make the leap, during the lower note. If the notes are going by quickly, I still set up (air, mouth and embouchure) for the higher note while I'm in the lower register. For me it's a matter of preparation.

Karl

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