Hello! Patricia here. :)
There's a number of things I would like to address.
1. Running
The objective of running is to build up your air so that you all will have more air to blow your instruments. Can go search online for evidence. got chim stuff abt how running can improve cardiovascular fitness, lung capacity blablabla. In fact, swimming is the best exercise. Mr ng said before also if you all can rmb. But I believe a lot of you all wouldn't like to swim tgt. heheh including me. So if you all have time do swim! ^^
Today's running was really quite fail. Can see from the number of ppl who gave up and walked instead. I really hope that you all will take the running seriously so that the whole section can improve tgt. If one person give up, another person will also give up. Domino effect. I know most of you all hate running but please just try to motivate yourself ok? Think of having more air to blow clarinet and better intonation.... positive stuff. And can train for 2.4 also hahas.
2. Fundamentals training (SBTs, long notes, scales etc)
I know most of you all hate these exercises cos its very tiring and and your mouth will really hurt. But only if you train on these then will your intonation improve. This is the objective from now onwards for tsm right? Anyone dare to say that their intonation is so good that you can play tsm without going sharp or flat? Not that i can lols. There's always room for improvement. That's why we are all training on this now.
Maybe some of you will ask how it improves your intonation. Then I ask you what is intonation linked to? It's linked to air, embouchure and all those stuff that links back to basic fundamentals like long notes. That's why we are training on these exercises right now.
Besides that, by playing all these, you are training on your bridging and flexibility and tonguing. Some of you will ask why can't we just focus on the pieces and work those problems on bridging and intonation by the pieces. But I ask you again. If you cannot even bridge from eg A to B fluently normally, how can you play as written? And if your notes are all of different pitch, ie, some flat some sharp, even if you tune C, is there a use? Your other notes will go out of tune!
And and if you just focus on the pieces, you play eg appassionato, then eg your F very sharp, your E very flat then are you going to loosen and tighten your embouchure every time??
The reason why good players can play in tune most of the time is because of their strong fundamentals. That's why we are drilling you all on these stuff now.
Same as running, I hope that you all will take these seriously and think of it positively.
PS: CLARINETS' CUPBOARD! Let's decorate it ok? Give me ideas!
PPS: Jiayou in practising! Let's be more bonded and motivate each other in practising. :)
Thank you for reading! ^^
