Learning how to taper can be really annoying. But it's beautiful when you learn how to do them. Tapering is simply how you end your notes. No matter how long or how short, they need to have an ending. It's this little bit of a pull at the end of your note that makes a beautiful ending.
There's a short tone exercise in Moyse’s De La Sonorite that I like to use for short tapers that still have resonance. It's where I learned how to do short tones and short tapers.
Tapers are a mechanical thing, not a throat thing The mechanics are:
Maintain support
Keep that vibrato going
Bring your jaw up and out
Twist your lips to the side
Tapers will make your music so much more beautiful.
Watch me demonstrate eighth note tapers in the Hindemith Sonata!
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