my teacher was getting me to widen my style of playing and she played some very 20th century techniques e.g. multiphonics. are there any other weird sounding clarinet techniques which i can experiment with?


liam

The huuuge clarinet moment at the start of Rhapsody in Blue is ace! I've never seen anyone play it, but you can play some of it using only your mouthpiece and your hand to change the pitch! (That was our band leader, not sure if he's joking or not though! He did a little demonstration but it was quite feckless!)

QUOTE (elmo @ May 24 2005, 06:07 PM)

The huuuge clarinet moment at the start of Rhapsody in Blue is ace! I've never seen anyone play it, but you can play some of it using only your mouthpiece and your hand to change the pitch! (That was our band leader, not sure if he's joking or not though! He did a little demonstration but it was quite feckless!)

I can do it. It's not that hard when you know how.

cool! I love rhapsody in blue!

Is flutter-tonguing counted as an advanced technique? I know flute players do it, but I heard someone mention it when they were talking about clarinet, and I was surprised, flutter-tonguing sounds really cool.

Others include flutter tounge and slap tounge. Multiphonics is a funny one. Can't do it. I suspect for an FRSM program you would have to demonstrate at least some of these advanced techniques.

I've always wanted to be able to play multi-phonics, but it's a hard concept to grasp, that one can play two notes at the same time, really strange

Yeh, an old teacher of mine could do multiphonics effortlessly. Then again, I heard two recordings of the same piece (by professionals) that had a slap tounge and a flutter. One could do flutter but not slap, and amazingly, the other could do slap but not flutter.

What's slap tongue? Never heard of it!

I'll go and check that one. I have the Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet by Colin Lawson. Not sure how much it has about advanced technique though.

Have to dash. Got a piano lesson tonight.

EDIT
Just noticed previous post Hulk, flutter tounging has harder than the flute because the reed is against your tounge. Flute players have nothing IN their mouth, so it's easier for them.

yeah i can do multiphonics quite easily and effectively. slap tonguing? hmm. interestingly i've never heard the whole of rhapsody in blue before. that is quite sad as my gershwin is one of my favourite composers! but yeas the beginning is absolutely great!

Never heard of the slap togue, I know that flute's tonging is like tonging with the air!

wahey, i can do fluter tonguing!! i'll be doing this for the next 10 years until they find something new to do on the clarinet!!!

Please can someone explain what slap tonguing is, I'm really intrigued now!

I'll confues issues if I explain it..but it is really cool!!

please explain natalie

There is a description of slap tonguing here.

thanks neil.clarinet, i'm going to perfect this until i'm perfect! it already sounds okay-ish. Also, I found this. It has some good info, if you're interested on these techniques. there's some good film clips on it.

Clarinet

Navigate the clarinet section on the left-hand side. There's stuff about articulation, effects, advanced effects, etc.

Flutter tonguing on the flute is quite hard, especially keeping a good tone, but it must be even harder with a reed in the way.

I think I can just about do slap tonguing

It is hard on flute, but I can half do it every now and again on flute...anything else it's so difficult!

i can only half do it!