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Re: low C articulation (mp dynamic)

Author: Schell
Date: 2007-09-07 05:27

For attacks in general (and it is especially applicable to difficult ones), it is crucial to be sure your air is already going before the attack takes place. The actual start of the note should be the release of the tongue from the reed not the touch of the tongue to the reed. Have your air moving and then release your tongue and your attacks will be made much smoother and easier in all registers and dynamics. This is also a good habit to get into because it starts a sense of line before the notes actually start. If you think of a phrase as notes being placed on one wind and thought of as a whole idea, rather than individual parts, then the first note in the phrase should also be included in the whole, and not thought of as a single part. Paying non-musical attention to the first note in order to get it to speak breaks the line. But if one can articulate by having air already in motion it will not only ease attacks and make them more accurate, but encourage a nice musical line where even the first note is part of the whole idea.

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