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All this faf just to keep up the dubious benefits of wood clarinettes. Plastic will never blow out, never need oil, never need to be broken in, and never crack.

Excellent description

Thanks Jay. Great advice. I will follow it

This is a great demo of overall hand position. I do I need to rubber band my left pinky to the keys. it's the wanderer of my hands! I will look at my hands in videos with the sound off so I don't get "distracted" by the sound and focus there. It definitely helps. This is especially true for video from performances. It shows whether or not what you practice is carrying through on stage. The minimum effort/strain reminds me a bit of Alexander technique.

i love youtube. i harass a retired teacher to give me lessons xD, and they're great, but it's so valuable to hear other voices too! thanks for your videos i'm pretty surprised at just how much you can cover the bottom key without it flattening the G

Bonjour ! What should I buy for a Bb clarinet if I have nothing to compare? I would like to try the French cut. I'm not a professional, I'm learning (but I'm not a beginner). Several years ago I bought European cut reeds but Légère used to put stickers for the numbers and now the stickers have gone. I have a 2.75 and a 3. One is better but I don't know the strength (Yes they are still great 8 years later!). I would appreciate if you could help me and sorry for any mistake in my English, I'm French. Merci.

For the 'sticky' reed case that appears to have a rubberized coating, use Mother's VLR to clean it. It'll restore the supple feel and eliminate the sticky feel. I have an older 4-reed Vandoren reed case with dissicant and that Protec 12-reed case. It fits in my Protec Carry-All pro pac case.

Use a long Q-tip swab to "paint" a track of bore oil straight down the bottom of the inside of the bore. This creates a channel for the condensation and helps to keep it away from the tone holes. Rice paper works great to absorb moisture from the pads after swabbing.

thanks for the information in this episode. Can you give me a ballpark for a price for a used Backun Protege Cocobolo clarinet? The condition is exceptional but not quite mint. Thanks!

I suppose the most surprising thing was the use of a #4 reed on the BD4. Ouch. Embouchure of steel needed for that combination, at least for me. I suppose it was a V12 and not the classic blue.

Awesome stuff. Thank you sharing rhis

What's your take on circular breathing... d'you practice it regularly, efficiently ?

I can guess that the 61mm-66mm barrel is best for a C clarinet, as long as it fits the clarinet.

Interesting concepts about cleaning up articulation juxtaposed with tonguing

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Hello from Brazil! I've been playing the clarinet for around 6 months and I really want to thank you for your videos, they have been of great help! Lately I've been struggling a lot with right hand tension related pain and experimenting with setting the thumb rest to different heights, but not to much avail. I've seen a lot of very conflicting information on this topic (and everything clarinet related really haha) so would love your opinion on this.

Shouldn’t the keys be off before oiling the bore? Won’t the oil degrade the pads?

Very good video. Because of you I have practised a lot the book of oppelman. There is also in it a very good study on grace notes and 3 studies on chords with unsual accidents (double flat and double sharp). Thanks from France.

Thank you for this video, it was immensely helpful, just returned back to clarinet after 40 years with a vengeance, enjoying all the advice from you professional clarinetist s , it’s appreciated so much

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As always, Jay, a fantastic video! So helpful to hear this topic being broken down so carefully and in such a practical way.

So I can blame my reed nice

The clarinetist is tops! But the commentary is not. Let the music speak for itself!

It's my goal to learn this (this song inspired my first research paper, and it was on George Gershwin), but the glissando always eluded me. This was a super helpful explanation, thank you. I'm still working on dropping the pitch lower on my mouthpiece, but my head is pounding and the cat is pissed lol.

While I haven't played the Bb clarinet reeds yet, I've tested the tenor sax version (effectively also the bass clarinet version) and found it very similar to the Vandoren Blue Box/D'Addario Reserve reeds in terms of sound & strength. Not sure if this is true with the Bb clarinet reeds either? -Josh Woods whom you met at Clarinetest 2024

Thank you, thank you! I am by no means a pro player (more like coulda, woulda, shoulda) but still play as much as I can. I NEED a new barrel so I can accurately tune with the musicians at my church. How fast can I get one?? I liked the Delvin Behn Bores, and the rubber with rubber ring.

Thanks for taking the time to do this well (better audio equipment could help) Double lip embouchure may or may not be a requirement for a good sound. I heard Elsa Verdehr perform at the Clarinetfest (Clarinet Clinic it was called then) In Denver about 1976. She is a master at double lip playing and has the widest dynamic range I've ever witnessed and a very expressive sound balanced with flawless technique. In front of about 250 clarinetists she demonstrated both single and double embouchure in a rather extended solo passage. The few listeners who chose correctly when asked admitted they guessed and it was not evident in the playing. It probably comes down to doing either one correctly. Years later I played in an orchestra in the New York area with Dennis Dougherty (A former student of Kieth Stein [Chicago Symphony Double Lip player]). Mr Dougherty told me that Stein switched him to double lip because of the muscular fatigue he experience in his arms and hands from playing single, even though it was not a "biting issue". He also told me that in large ensembles playing loudly he can not hear his own playing using double lip so he switches to single lip and listens to his own intonation through the bones in his upper teeth! I think Mr. Dougherty has a great expressive sound but it may be as much the big bore instruments he plays on as it is with his embouchure. Listen here when you get a chance: ua-cam.com/video/-1OOMcixT7A/v-deo.html

A teacher of mine who was a student of Bonade showed me something related to this subject that Bonade taught. Practice very slowly while opening the fingers very wide and then work on accurately finding the keys from long distance. This is just for practice, not for actually playing this way. If you can find the holes accurately in this way, you are in good shape. Also, helps to relax the fingers. I think your exercize here would be a good preliminary to this Bonade exercise.

After watching this video, I got my clarinet out and tried the lesson. Awesome exercise! Thanks!!

My big right hand issue is I hit the sliver key whenever I play Eb. Just enough to open it slightly but that’s all it takes to mess me up. His looks like it might help train my fingers to stay in the right place.

I have a question you may be able to answer. When I look at content on UA-cam they class content as beginner, very easy. What do people class a person who has played clarinet for around 3 months. Most content is over the break and difficult articulation. When will I reach a beginner?

I was thinking earlier I need something like this. I get death grip on my right hand and it locks up.I also have a hard time connecting my fingering to my brain. A lot of people on UA-cam show beginners C D E F and G and that’s all you get as a beginner. I know it’s free and we mustn’t grumble but I am sure there would be an audience.There probably are a lot on UA-cam but get drowned out the mere mortals.

Great lesson, thank you 😊

FYI...Calendly appointment link on website not working. Kudos on lesson 😎

im really loving these scales and they play really well, however i play bass and contra most of the time, would you ever make a version of this music that includes low C, C#, D, and D#? im trying to work on my lower range and this could really help

In terms of resistance, not sound.. Do you think there is a difference between them in resistance level? If so, which one do you think is the most resistant and which one is the most free blowing? Or, which is the order from the most resistant to the less resistant(free blowing)? thanks

This was my EXACT question!!! Thank you!!! I am playing on a Yamaha 250 but with a B•45 Vandoren mouthpiece. I want something to level up my sound without jumping into the $5000 range.

There's almost nothing I love more than firsthand accounts of student experiences with the great clarinet teachers of the tradition. They're like mysterious, long-lost Jedi Masters.

All the cane reeds sounded great to me. At that point I’d pick the best feeling style for my mouthpiece. At the moment I’m playing Reserve Evolution happily but have had success with Rue Lepic 56 as well. Legere Signature was my preference for sound of the synth reeds, but none of them really seemed “good enough” for a concert situation.

bonjour, est-ce que les baris réglables sont-ils compatibles sur las clarinettes Yamaha? (nb: les barils Yamaha sont plus courts que sur les Buffet ou Selmer ou autres. merci d'avance

The PDF isn’t working is there anybody that is willing to give me another link to it? I would really appreciate it!! 💛