My first guest post is up on Marion Harrington’s blog. It’s on how to choose hardware for recording or performance. And as if you needed more incentive, there are dozens of other great posts on her site as well as an excellent recording of French [...]
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I promise to come back with a new post soon. My son’s been on “vacation” from daycare for the last week so I haven’t had a lot of time to write. But, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking after reading David Thomas’s recent posts over at the Buzzing Reed. If you’re interested in [...] Just today I was teaching a student and the issue of how to make an embouchure came up. He and I have been working on air speed for quite a while and it was time to move to the next step. So, we did two experiments to find out if his embouchure was really working well [...] It occurs to me that it might be helpful to say something about how to mic a clarinet especially for live situations. Place the mic no more than a few inches (like 2 – 3) away from the CENTER of the clarinet. NOT the bell. Unless you plan on playing low E’s all [...] What does it mean to be in tune? That seems pretty obvious right? Just get out your tuner and play a note. If your not flat or sharp then you’re in tune. Easy. Done. But perhaps that’s not all there is to it. Maybe you’d like to play with an ensemble or even just one other [...] Or – How I avoided GAS at ClarinetFest I think all musicians at one time or another have succumbed to GAS. That is – Gear Acquisition Syndrome. You know the feeling. That finding just the right mouthpiece, or ligature, or barrel, or whatever it is will help make your playing better. And, before I go any further [...] Well thanks to another conference attendee I now have wifi access at the University. So, things are going really well here. Yesterday I saw half of a terrific performance by the UT clarinet faculty – Nathan Williams and Richard MacDowell. I say half because I had to leave otherwise I’d fall asleep due to exhaustion. This [...] I’ve recently finished this book by Neal Stephenson. If you don’t know his work, it typically involves Science and Fiction but not always science-fiction. How’s that for clear. Anyway, this particular book deals with topics like geometry quite a bit and I’ve found myself thinking about the clarinet at the same time and so, here we are. Economy [...] Every clarinetist has had the experience of water getting into the keys and making some pretty weird noises. But how best to get it out? In the short term I’ve found it best to take my swab pull it to where the key is and blow the water into the swab. This may sound incredibly obvious [...] The Passover Holiday is rapidly approaching so I need to take a little break from writing until things settle down. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back to writing in about a week. So here’s what you can expect when I get back… More about the embouchure. |
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