Meri’s Musical Musings

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More developed cognitive abilities, such as reasoning and analyzing -they can understand the purpose of specific playing techniques and how they lead to the long-term goals. Also can take a lot less time to get to an intermediate level: what might take a student who started at the age of five to reach a solid intermediate [...]

*To my first clarinet teacher, who completely convinced me that this is true*     Clarinetists can have several kinds of playing problems: they can have poor tone quality, getting the notes in the clarion or altissmo register, connecting the chalumeau and clarion registers, tone quality of the throat tones, tonguing, wide intervals, and tuning. In [...]

Observations about some piano instructors

Posted by: clariniano on: April 11, 2009

April 10, 2009 One of the things I don’t understand is why teachers cover up the hands supposedly to help students keep their eyes on the music. But, the reason it’s possible to play most instruments without looking at the hands is because they are in a relatively fixed area, whereas the body has to cover [...]

Roots of breathing problems in playing wind instruments

Posted by: clariniano on: April 4, 2009

Some wind players complain that they have little endurance. Most endurance problems can be traced to several types of poor breathing habits: whether they breathe from the nose, poor embouchure, breathing from the neck, shoulder lifting, not knowing where to breathe in the music, choking off the sound at the embouchure or waist, and holding [...]


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