Ok, this is, I believe, the third time I have come back to the blog after a long hiatus here or there. I've been working at home and practicing while my wife is in graduate school. She's probably going to get a thousand Master's degrees, but I've started taking control of my career. The blog is going to become a place to promote my music (which I am in the middle of recording.) I hope to have six albums out before the summer. All of them are nice and smooth easy listening tracks I'm recording as A Man Of Few Words.
I'm also going to start a video series on YouTube for band excerpts on bass clarinet, on for basic pedagogy and another series of background tracks that you can listen to while you are working. I'm going to actually leave the blog up on my computer this time, and I will actually *gasp* reply to comments. I read a few lovely comments that I had never seen before because I just wasn't looking after the blog at all.
So, I'm back, but this is my career, and I hope to do it full-time from now. When I get my first two albums done, I hope to have them on Spotify, iTunes, Pandora and the Google Play Store. So, you'll be able to enjoy my stuff wherever you are. More updates to come when new videos or tracks are out there. However, I can't do any of that if I keep yapping on here. Did you know how much goes into getting your music on iTunes, etc? Sheesh! I have to get to work finishing this music, working with an aggregator and get my stuff out there.
That's it for today, hopefully more good news is to come!
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ReplyDeleteMr Guru, I have a Leblanc 430S too and am interested in how your instrument tunes. Please contact me at nilspirat at gmail dot com.
ReplyDeleteWell, the instrument itself plays just a tiny bit low. However, lipping up on these big horns is easy because the bore is so large. The altissimo is especially easy to manage because the instrument is so flexible. However, the large bore allows you to play louder without making the instrument play EVEN lower than it already would because you're playing loud. You're biggest problem, in my opinion, is throat Bb. Mine's not great, but I can work around one note to have the horn that I love :)
ReplyDeleteMy instrument is sharp (440 Hz) if you insert the neck all the way. Have to pull it 10 mm to play in tune overall. The throat tones then get flat compared to the rest of the clarinet. The high clarion is sharp so I have to lip those tones down. I'd be interested in a more detailed tuning profile and sharing mine so if you want, contact me on the mail I described above. Thanks!
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