The funniest thing is, though, the trumpet player seemed to make the trumpet seem like the most amazing instrument ever, while the clarinet player is just, "It's a cylindrical wooden tube with holes."
I've been playing clarinet for 8 years, yet this video is very satisfying for some reason. It gives me chills. Idk why😂😂😂 Anyone else not a beginning player and watching this???
I’m in my last year of junior high, and I play the clarinet. Lemme tell you, this is easy. It is hard to get tone right and to find the right reed and perfecting your embouchure. This is the video that I watched my first year of junior high that made me fall in love with this instrument.
I've played clarinet for over 10 years. Middle school through high school. Concert and marching band in high school. Wanted to continue in college but my chosen major demanded so much time I felt I couldn't give the time properly needed to devote to music as well as keep up with my studies properly. Heart breaking choice. Went to every concert in college that I could and to home football games to watch the marching band. Fun and depressing at the same time. I still play in my spare time and enjoy it a lot.
The saga of the single reeds: Clarinet. (Oboes and Bassoons are another story) A reed may play wonderfully in a particular mouthpiece, change the mouthpiece and the reed will be a lousy crappy one. I have several mouthpieces and prepared the reeds for each one and never interchange them between the mouthpieces. It is more art than science.
It drives me super mad when people come up to me, while I'm holding / playing my clarinet and they ask "do you play flute?" No. I don't. This is a clarinet. The instrument next to me is a flute. THEY LOOK DIFFERENT!!!!!
That's not as bad as when You have a violin case on your back and people ask if you play guitar. Do you know how many times people have asked me that? More times than violin even. They are not even close to the same size! At least flute and clarinet are similarly sized cases.
You guys should spotlight Contrabass Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, and the saxophone. I know they aren't exactly orchestral instruments but they do have literature written for them.
Benito cristobal Not true. Berlioz wrote piece which include C Soprano Saxophone and F Baritone Saxophone. They might uncommon, but they are definitely orchestral instruments.
+Benito cristobal pretty sure pines of Rome has saxophones too. they may double other instruments though and may not be in the original transcription. but they're definitely orchestral instruments.
Do you not associate with chromatic percussive instruments? Lol. Then again, you did write *boom boom,* so this is probably a stupid question. Most percussionists I know, though, handle or have handled timpani, xylophones and vibraphones, glocks and marimbas, etc. - in addition to stuff like bass and snare drums/cymbal, onward and such.
Playing clarinet in the marching band was always fun. We never had to worry about how well we were playing since nobody could hear us over the brass section :)
Love those videos! They are very interesting and it helps to understand the other instruments that my peers are playing in the orchestra. Please make more!
+Haowei Shi When composers intend to make the clarinets stand out you can clearly hear them, and they can sound very nice :) Just as the clarinet in Mozart's Serenade for Winds, 3rd movement, just after the oboe at the start :) Beautiful.
Clarinet Playing Llama omg we have 2 clarinets and 7 trumpets and the trumpets are so rubbish!! Whenever the clarinet has the tune the trumpets always has it as well!!
I am going to be in middle school and is going to be in band. This helps a lot for me thank you. And the clarinet in s awesome that person that said clarinet is boring,that's just strait out mean you try the clarinet and see.
Awesome! :D The whole thing, and the outro, damn 2013 vibes! The old iPad and even then the amount of innovation went into the making of the app. Nice! :D
I have been playing clarinet for almost 6 years now since I was in 5th grade. I love to play it a lot. If you are beginners and starting to learn clarinet don't give up. If you have the chance to play, play because you never know if you get the chance to play such an amazing instrument ever again. Quick question I love to play but don't care for the teacher and would be torn if I wouldn't be able to play what should I do?
I've played clarinet for 3 years, but I'm doing a different instrument next year because I kind of want the ability to be able to pick up any instrument and just play it.
DONT HAVE TO CARRY A CASE AS LONG AS THE INSTRUMENT.!?!?! Do you realize what cellist, double bass players, and less dramatically, a violinist or violist have do go through?,?!!
Really nice video! I don't play the clarinet myself. I play the piano but I'm very interested in orchestration and sound as a whole. And even though I've never had much to do with clarinets I must say that it creates a really beautiful sound!
Question, why doesn't each clarinet have a different mouthpiece and also something like a stand is used, holding the clarinet at mouth level to make the change faster? These videos are incredible by the way!
Hold the thought on those two clarinets. One is tuned to Bb and the other to A. They may look the same, however, do not sound similar. The A clarinet is longer than the Bb and has a different tone and color than the Bb. It may be correct that a composer will write a movement for the Bb and another movement for the A, it has nothing, in my opinion, to do with sharps or flats, but in the tone, color of the instrument for that particular movement. A good example is Mozart's Clarinet concerto which when played on an A clarinet the key of the first movement has not sharp or flats, yet when attempted on the Bb clarinet the key of the first movement has five sharps which is slightly more complicated to play.
Gonna be getting a job soon and might buy a clarinet with my first couple paychecks. I used to play it in band but I didn't have an interest back then and its gone now. Recently though I developed an interest in Jazz. The instrument sounds more majestic than I remember but then again I just tooted hot cross buns poorly back in the day
If you thought the quick change from A clarinet to Bb was hard, imagine what I have to do as a woodwind doubler in musicals. Last year I played Reed 5 in the show "Nine" and the director made some cuts which meant I had to constantly change instruments even halfway through numbers. In one number alone, I played Bb clarinet, flute, AND bassoon!!
@Joshua Diocares no the way the notes are played are different I've played both clarinet and recorder at school it feels nothing like the recorder and you use a Reed so you don't just simply blow air and expect noise it takes muvh more work.
I have composed next to nothing in which the clarinet [and its various derivations] is featured. I do recall a work by Leroy Anderson called "Clarinet Candy".
Clarinet is my favorite instrument. Now I have been playing for 2 and 1/2 years. But in my school my band teacher said that the bass clarinet is coming soo I am having trouble about what I should do. Should I change to bass or just stay.
Bass clarinet requires significantly more air than a clarinet, plus it's pitched an octave lower. In band the bass clarinet usually gets the bass part, so it's up to you.
The bass clarinet exudes a delicious chocolate licorice and has a range is almost as great as its string instrument sister, the violoncello. Many friends play bass clarinet professionally, as well as other clarinets and saxophones to make a living. They will tell you the bass clarinet comes first. After the years playing one, I wish i had it now -not just soprano clarinet and tenor saxophone. The bass clarinet is a kick and a half. Look up the Edmond Welles Bass Clarinet Quartet and the Stark Clarinet Quartet on You Tube. Both groups are phenomenal.
Let me simplify on what you may be asking. You can either be REALLY good at one instrument, or mediocre at multiple. All what you choose to do depends on your character.
If you continue to play clarinet after you finish school, you will eventually be called to play both. Its better that you learn it now than later. While your at it, learn flute and saxophone as well. Good Luck! :)
This dude needs to be a voice actor. His voice and accent makes me want to play the clarinet again
He needs to host a car show... LOL
Chaspen he sounds really interesting
I just wish he looked at the camera a bit more often. "Here!! I'm over here!!"
He could do the Peter and Wolf narration and play the cat part in it.
Ron Weasley's dad.
The funniest thing is, though, the trumpet player seemed to make the trumpet seem like the most amazing instrument ever, while the clarinet player is just, "It's a cylindrical wooden tube with holes."
Yeah the trumpet is not that "high tech"
Napoleon complex.
As a trumpet player I admit we have huge egos 😂😂😂
I think that is funny that he fails with staccato in the beginning :D why didn't they recorded again ?? :D
Difference between trumpet players and everyone else
This guy defies all clarinet laws: trilling A to B, super fast staccato and even playing extremely high extremely quietly. Ling Ling has competition
i love random trilling when my band teacher is talking
I've been playing clarinet for 8 years, yet this video is very satisfying for some reason. It gives me chills. Idk why😂😂😂 Anyone else not a beginning player and watching this???
me 😂😂
I don't even possess a clarinet and still I am watching this carefully 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dima Clarke I've been playing for 10 years, and this was so fascinating to watch.
I've been playing for 5 years and I love watching these videos XD
Yeah I've been playing nearly half my life and this is still really fun to watch, I love the clarinet
I’m in my last year of junior high, and I play the clarinet. Lemme tell you, this is easy. It is hard to get tone right and to find the right reed and perfecting your embouchure. This is the video that I watched my first year of junior high that made me fall in love with this instrument.
5 years later do u still play it?
You guys are legends. This helped me so much for my exams
That's great! We're really happy to hear it!
This helps me as well .
I don't play any instruments and came to this video randomly but watched the whole thing because that chap is so interesting to listen to
Arthur Weasley, is that you?
I thought the exact same thing(;
He loves muggles' stuff.
No but I'm here
I thought it would be only me. I scrolled down just in case but did not expect to actually find such a comment.
@@professorseverustobiassnap1566 lol
I love the clarinet I've been playing for a year and it is a wonderful instrument
It’s been 8 years,how are you now
are you still playing?
@@catherinewang8290 Now it's 9 years.
Slay
His voice makes this explanation way more interesting than it is.
Fascinating!
Wow, so interesting hearing all this about the clarinet, I'm so excited to start learning it!
Have fun
Me too. I just got my first one last week :3
@@kishascape I’m almost a year into playing it
This man has offended my pride as a flautist, now a duel is due.
Just kidding, we flautists are too scared to fight.
flau·tist
ˈflôdəst,ˈfloudəst
noun
a flutist.
The definition literally corrects you XD
you’re right. i’m too scared
Dan D my flautist friend would fight anyone
I've been playing Bb clarinet for near five years and still find this video very interesting and helpful!
Thank you! It's good to know that people find these videos helpful regardless of whether they have been playing for 5 months or 5 years!
I just started playing clarinet today I hope I'm this good someday!!
If you practice you're fingering you improve more than you think.😀
If you study you will be a lot better than he is with a darker more powerfull sound and more marked staccatto and better fingering
Chloe Grace practice and have fun!
Good for you!
Chloe Grace yayy i've been playing for 8 years and I still love it :)) hope you enjoy it!
I've played clarinet for over 10 years. Middle school through high school. Concert and marching band in high school. Wanted to continue in college but my chosen major demanded so much time I felt I couldn't give the time properly needed to devote to music as well as keep up with my studies properly. Heart breaking choice. Went to every concert in college that I could and to home football games to watch the marching band. Fun and depressing at the same time.
I still play in my spare time and enjoy it a lot.
Well done on continuing to play!
Who knew I'd be learning about both fingering and tonguing in a video about the clarinet? How exciting!
It sounds like finding the right reed is like finding the right wand in Harry Potter
"The reed chooses the clarinet, remember..."
The saga of the single reeds: Clarinet. (Oboes and Bassoons are another story) A reed may play wonderfully in a particular mouthpiece, change the mouthpiece and the reed will be a lousy crappy one. I have several mouthpieces and prepared the reeds for each one and never interchange them between the mouthpieces. It is more art than science.
I use plastic reeds. Lol.
I didn’t know mr. Weasley played the clarinet
I just use whatever the hell I find in my vandoren box, usually thickness 2-3
Doesn't this guy look like a mixture between Thom Yorke and Arthur Weasley?
sort of, minus the eyebrows.
Manuel Campins yeah definetly arthur weasley
Manuel Campins no eyebrows though
Ehhh more arthur weasley
i dont really see thom yorke
What a great idea to play all these instruments and put them here. I had no clue the sounds these things made.
This series is one of a kind
The only one out there🙏🏼
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Very engaging and captivating speaker! Had a smile on my face through the entire video. I like clarinets even more now :)
I have been playing B Flat Clarinet for 4 years now, But I still learned something from this video!
Pk Haysack do you still play
Hey how are u doing with It? its been 4 years xd
@@hugosan24x87 i've graduated highschool. i was section leader for a year then quitting overall senior year to work full-time
Very informative video about the clarinet. Will definitely help me in writing for it!
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Why do I feel like watching Arthur Weasley explaining his clarinet?
Good Job Mark Van We weil good job explaining that's good advice thanks for the advice
Buying my first clarinet in a week. But i have no teacher. So these videos are the world to me. thank you
It drives me super mad when people come up to me, while I'm holding / playing my clarinet and they ask "do you play flute?"
No. I don't. This is a clarinet. The instrument next to me is a flute. THEY LOOK DIFFERENT!!!!!
That's not as bad as when You have a violin case on your back and people ask if you play guitar. Do you know how many times people have asked me that? More times than violin even. They are not even close to the same size! At least flute and clarinet are similarly sized cases.
Liv_Thomson Sameeee....
My grandfather says I play really good on my flute, I play clarinet....
Liv_Thomson I’ve played flute for years and my parents are still convinced I play clarinet
I didn't know People actually think that the clarinet is a flute... What...
I've been playing the clarinet for 6 years and I never knew that clarinettists could need to change clarinets mid-concert.
Interesting video...
I found this quite fascinating. Thank you very much. That was brilliant.
You guys should spotlight Contrabass Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, and the saxophone. I know they aren't exactly orchestral instruments but they do have literature written for them.
+Tools240 We will at some point make more instrument films. Thanks for your suggestions!
+Tools240 there are different types? :S
Saxophones aren't used in an orchestra.
Benito cristobal Not true. Berlioz wrote piece which include C Soprano Saxophone and F Baritone Saxophone. They might uncommon, but they are definitely orchestral instruments.
+Benito cristobal
pretty sure pines of Rome has saxophones too. they may double other instruments though and may not be in the original transcription. but they're definitely orchestral instruments.
I don't know why but this guy comes off as a very interesting person. I could picture him in a movie.
With your simple lessons the classics becomes more interesting. :)
Thank you!
Thank you, yet again!
I play the Bb clarinet and Eb Clarinet. This was an amazing help to me with my new techniques! Thank you London!
They aren't the only ones who helped.......
Why am I watching this, I'm in percussion, I make boom boom noises, I don't like notes.
oh yes you do. you're gonna need to play a mallet instrument at some point.
why am i watching this, im an electric guitar player and i like it loud
😋🤣🤣🤣
Do you not associate with chromatic percussive instruments? Lol. Then again, you did write *boom boom,* so this is probably a stupid question. Most percussionists I know, though, handle or have handled timpani, xylophones and vibraphones, glocks and marimbas, etc. - in addition to stuff like bass and snare drums/cymbal, onward and such.
Or: we don't blow, we hit
I love clarinets.
This is awesome! Thanks for making this video. It helps a lot for people like me who are composers better understand the instruments were writing for!
Ashton Dean Gleckman You're welcome! We're so glad it's helpful. Best of luck with your composing!
Thank you for this video, Mark have done the excellent job introducing the clarinet!
Thank you for this. It has been decades and decades since I leaned this. Great for my 6yo son to learn this
I can't stop watching those videos. Please help me.
Sorry about that.... Thanks for watching!
Playing clarinet in the marching band was always fun. We never had to worry about how well we were playing since nobody could hear us over the brass section :)
you weren't blowing hard enough
Squidward was so popular, they made clarinets a real thing
thank you for this informative video on the clarinet!
De Day We're glad you enjoyed it!
Love those videos! They are very interesting and it helps to understand the other instruments that my peers are playing in the orchestra. Please make more!
Fantastically explained 👌
Clarinets always gets drowned out by the trumpets 😡
+Haowei Shi And every other instrument due to the fact that clarinets are very quiet.
I know right🎺🔥
+Haowei Shi When composers intend to make the clarinets stand out you can clearly hear them, and they can sound very nice :) Just as the clarinet in Mozart's Serenade for Winds, 3rd movement, just after the oboe at the start :) Beautiful.
OMG IKR!!! It drives me insane!!! Once at my school band camp we have 11 trumpets, and only 4 clarinets....
Clarinet Playing Llama omg we have 2 clarinets and 7 trumpets and the trumpets are so rubbish!! Whenever the clarinet has the tune the trumpets always has it as well!!
I dont know why, but even though ive been playing the clarinet for about 7 years, ive watched this video about 20 times
what a wonderful sound and video, thanks
Thanks for watching!
*very* engaging speaker!
I am going to be in middle school and is going to be in band. This helps a lot for me thank you. And the clarinet in s awesome that person that said clarinet is boring,that's just strait out mean you try the clarinet and see.
Love the understated orchestral joke/jab at 6:28. He thought that was really funny, and therefore it was. XD
Thanks for this video! Very good!! I appreciated a lot!
Elias Farias We're glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome! :D
The whole thing, and the outro, damn 2013 vibes! The old iPad and even then the amount of innovation went into the making of the app. Nice! :D
Nice Teaching You Have Passion Patience And Preservence
this video is awesome
I have been playing clarinet for almost 6 years now since I was in 5th grade. I love to play it a lot. If you are beginners and starting to learn clarinet don't give up. If you have the chance to play, play because you never know if you get the chance to play such an amazing instrument ever again. Quick question I love to play but don't care for the teacher and would be torn if I wouldn't be able to play what should I do?
.
Practice your heart out. The high notes are hard to play but once you get them they will be easier and funnier.
Yep!!
No
I've played clarinet for 3 years, but I'm doing a different instrument next year because I kind of want the ability to be able to pick up any instrument and just play it.
i am just thinking of playing clarinet, I have tries all these different instruments but clarinet or drum might be it
FANTASTIC!!!!
Great! I am really enjoying these videos
Fascinating
I love the Clarinet ❤️ I had just started playing since 6th Grade
6:40 oh dang that subtle roast on other instruments
My Instrument
Super cool!
This is an awesome video! Thanks for uploading this video! I play a Bb Clarinet too!
+webb cortez You're welcome!
+webb cortez lol same
+DaJalapeño +webb cortez do you know some artists composing sad and emotional clarinet melodies?
projectfear22 hmmm hard one soz man i think ull have to google that i dunno any :P
Really informative, I don't play but I love learning
DONT HAVE TO CARRY A CASE AS LONG AS THE INSTRUMENT.!?!?! Do you realize what cellist, double bass players, and less dramatically, a violinist or violist have do go through?,?!!
Well there's the low clarinets especially contra alto and contra bass where they're one piece for the most part lol
That's my problem with my one piece Alpenhorn.
Muahaha
No
Do you know what a bass clarinetist has to go through?
Really nice video!
I don't play the clarinet myself. I play the piano but I'm very interested in orchestration and sound as a whole. And even though I've never had much to do with clarinets I must say that it creates a really beautiful sound!
Thanks Squidward for letting me find out what a clarinet was, Yes I’m stupid.
Question, why doesn't each clarinet have a different mouthpiece and also something like a stand is used, holding the clarinet at mouth level to make the change faster? These videos are incredible by the way!
It's because the reed would dry out when you aren't playing the other clarinet.
Awesome video, many thanks!!
squidward brought me here
Omg, me to!!!!!!!!!!!!,, if I become famous with a clarinet then squid ward is awesome!!!!
MrOmnos same
*facepalms for all of the clarinets*
Same
Wow 5 years
We have band at our school and I signed up! I purchased my own clarinet at Sensany Music or something like that.
:D Hope that helped!
That's great, good luck!
Wonderful! Thank you!
Hold the thought on those two clarinets. One is tuned to Bb and the other to A. They may look the same, however, do not sound similar. The A clarinet is longer than the Bb and has a different tone and color than the Bb. It may be correct that a composer will write a movement for the Bb and another movement for the A, it has nothing, in my opinion, to do with sharps or flats, but in the tone, color of the instrument for that particular movement. A good example is Mozart's Clarinet concerto which when played on an A clarinet the key of the first movement has not sharp or flats, yet when attempted on the Bb clarinet the key of the first movement has five sharps which is slightly more complicated to play.
Gonna be getting a job soon and might buy a clarinet with my first couple paychecks. I used to play it in band but I didn't have an interest back then and its gone now. Recently though I developed an interest in Jazz. The instrument sounds more majestic than I remember but then again I just tooted hot cross buns poorly back in the day
Great, thanks for this. Very informative
Hi and thanks for info about the clarinet
Brilliant! How are you finding it?
He said 'avoid playing in complicated *keys* ' with such resentment I can relate
If you thought the quick change from A clarinet to Bb was hard, imagine what I have to do as a woodwind doubler in musicals. Last year I played Reed 5 in the show "Nine" and the director made some cuts which meant I had to constantly change instruments even halfway through numbers. In one number alone, I played Bb clarinet, flute, AND bassoon!!
Arthur weasley is that you
Performer Mark probably hates the editor of the video for starting the video with a failed take of the Beethoven 4th symphony passage. ;-)
He misses it in the midst of the video. Sloppy.
ouwch!
thanks for this video, i can use this one for my music subject
what's the composition at 10:22 - 10:33 ?
Edralis my death
I have played percussion for 5 years in a concert band, but I never actually heard most of these instruments play until I watched these videos.
blablabliam That can be the downside of standing at the back of the orchestra!
Wonderful video and GREAT explanation...thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
“It’s like a recorder, but cooler.”
I see your a man of culture
It's nothing like a recorder bish
That would be the flute maybe
@Joshua Diocares no the way the notes are played are different I've played both clarinet and recorder at school it feels nothing like the recorder and you use a Reed so you don't just simply blow air and expect noise it takes muvh more work.
@Joshua Diocares yes it does have some similarity but calling it like a recorder is jcksjvjsjkd
Maravillosa reseña del insturmento. Ojala la de flauta hubiera sido asi.
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@@philharmonia_orchestra spongebob im trying to play my clearnet leave me alone
I have composed next to nothing in which the clarinet [and its various derivations] is featured. I do recall a work by Leroy Anderson called "Clarinet Candy".
Clarinet is my favorite instrument. Now I have been playing for 2 and 1/2 years. But in my school my band teacher said that the bass clarinet is coming soo I am having trouble about what I should do. Should I change to bass or just stay.
Bass clarinet requires significantly more air than a clarinet, plus it's pitched an octave lower. In band the bass clarinet usually gets the bass part, so it's up to you.
The clarinet carries the melody very often. The bass clarinet almost never. The low pitched sound is nice for those who like it. But it's up to you.
The bass clarinet exudes a delicious chocolate licorice and has a range is almost as great as its string instrument sister, the violoncello. Many friends play bass clarinet professionally, as well as other clarinets and saxophones to make a living. They will tell you the bass clarinet comes first. After the years playing one, I wish i had it now -not just soprano clarinet and tenor saxophone. The bass clarinet is a kick and a half. Look up the Edmond Welles Bass Clarinet Quartet and the Stark Clarinet Quartet on You Tube. Both groups are phenomenal.
Let me simplify on what you may be asking. You can either be REALLY good at one instrument, or mediocre at multiple. All what you choose to do depends on your character.
If you continue to play clarinet after you finish school, you will eventually be called to play both. Its better that you learn it now than later. While your at it, learn flute and saxophone as well. Good Luck! :)
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I didn’t even know it was wooden. That said I like the sound and it is a leader in the contest for what I might try to learn. So thanks for the info.
I have played the clarinet for two years now!
I just got a clarinet for band and it’s very cool
Hi
Amazing instrument 👍👍
Im thinking of learning my 6th instrument. these videos are really helpful for me!
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very well explained!
Thanks, Victor!
Great performance, brother!!