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Re: high register problem

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2013-10-04 00:41

Sounds to me that she is voicing it too high. The more you ask her to say ee the more she will voice high, getting a high G# or a squeak. I'd suggest trying these things. Let her pay the F# using the "fork" fingering, it's more stable than the middle finger. Let her do the blowing while you fingering it. Than depress the register key and see what happens without letting her know when you're doing it. Try to get her to think blowing lower not higher, even thinking playing a bit flat to relax her voicing. She's voicing too high and or closing her throat out of fear. Another thing I use to do was to have her play the high C, then C to C#, then C to C# to D and then C to C# to D to D# and sustain that D# and concentrate how her throat feels and then try to get her to copy the feeling. It may take many times for her to get it but it will work if her clarinet does not leak and she has a decent reed and mouthpiece.

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