Hello :) Question....if i relax my lower lip and jaw, and try to push more air support...will the pitch go up? because lower C,D,E (1st octave) for my clarinet is veeery low. 2nd octave is sharp my fault? or 20 years old instruments fault?
Possibly a little of both. Generally relaxing the jaw no matter what you do with the air will lower the pitch. Bringing the pitch up is pretty difficult because adding extra embouchure pressure will typically start making the sound thin pretty quick, so the best thing to do is a little more embouchure support, but mostly aiming the air really high and narrow. It is very normal for the lower register to be flatter and the upper register sharper. If you are at like -5 and +12, that's not the end of the world. If it is more than that, it might be the clarinet. Checking the intonation of the 12ths is one of the most important things when choosing equipment.
🤔 I'm not quite there yet. Maybe next year... or two. 🤣 Though I do plan to spend the bulk of the winter on time/rhythm/speed. I'd run into some music that I am not fast enough to play... if I slow it down too much the rhythm gets lost .. incorrect notes get the accents meant for others.. it's a mess. Do you ever have a similar problem with a slow tempo?
I totally know what you mean! Generally what it sounds like to me is that you aren't clear on how the rhythm connects to the beat and are more playing how you are used to hearing it. It becomes quite difficult to hear it correctly as you go slower. Instead, think about how the rhythm connects to the beat and as you go slower you can add more subdivisions to the beat to anchor into and line up with. I think this video would be helpful for explaining that: th-cam.com/video/G9zZjOmdtig/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8lsgiXKgWmFo3q0-
Hello :)
Question....if i relax my lower lip and jaw, and try to push more air support...will the pitch go up? because lower C,D,E (1st octave) for my clarinet is veeery low. 2nd octave is sharp
my fault? or 20 years old instruments fault?
Possibly a little of both. Generally relaxing the jaw no matter what you do with the air will lower the pitch. Bringing the pitch up is pretty difficult because adding extra embouchure pressure will typically start making the sound thin pretty quick, so the best thing to do is a little more embouchure support, but mostly aiming the air really high and narrow.
It is very normal for the lower register to be flatter and the upper register sharper. If you are at like -5 and +12, that's not the end of the world. If it is more than that, it might be the clarinet. Checking the intonation of the 12ths is one of the most important things when choosing equipment.
🤔 I'm not quite there yet. Maybe next year... or two. 🤣 Though I do plan to spend the bulk of the winter on time/rhythm/speed.
I'd run into some music that I am not fast enough to play... if I slow it down too much the rhythm gets lost .. incorrect notes get the accents meant for others.. it's a mess. Do you ever have a similar problem with a slow tempo?
I totally know what you mean! Generally what it sounds like to me is that you aren't clear on how the rhythm connects to the beat and are more playing how you are used to hearing it. It becomes quite difficult to hear it correctly as you go slower. Instead, think about how the rhythm connects to the beat and as you go slower you can add more subdivisions to the beat to anchor into and line up with.
I think this video would be helpful for explaining that: th-cam.com/video/G9zZjOmdtig/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8lsgiXKgWmFo3q0-
Exactly. You nailed it. Thank you. That was great help. It took a little bit of messing with the metronome and finally it "clicked"! (
😂 I’m glad it was helpful!