Have a private student who started four months ago, and they are absolutely eating through the materials.

I want to keep them in the lower register for the most part, and am looking for a book that has musical pieces primarily in the lower range.

Any recommendations?

I’m gonna get straight to the point and say I NEED to learn clarinet in one day. I know it’s very unrealistic but I need to atleast know the basics. I know a little bit of music theory from my time in orchestra, but other than that I’m totally lost and have no idea where to start. What do I need to learn first? Where can I find videos to help me? If anyone has any suggestions for me to learn please do share.

Title says it all, I am trying to find a duet with or without piano accompaniment for a friend and I!!

Hey folks! Out of curiosity, how much do you record sessions and post them on your socials?

We have built out a feature in the nTune.app to record and organize recordings - and are also building out a function to create a practice circle within the app to share recordings with friends (and to social media). Does anyone have thoughts on how you would hypothetically use this?! What aggravates you about recording sessions that would make things easier? We hope to make recording as easy as possible, and want to hear what is actually needed from y'all's practice ☺️

Of all places. It was ready to go according to the guy. But the holes looked dingy( not polished) and I was hesitant to buy something that looked so old. The seller said it didn’t need any work. He was charging $60 and it was a Bb.

I am already learning the flute. I figure if l wanted to learn Clarinet I’d want to rent first.

The store I am renting my flute from charges $30 a month for a Clarinet.

Did I make a good decision?

Hello! do any of you guys use neck straps? do you find them beneficial in any way? if so, how?

personally, i love my strap. i’m a saxophonist as well so not using one feels odd. clarinet is my primary but i play sax equally as often. i also have really bad wrist pain and always have from writing and such. i’m also left handed so the weight rests on my weak wrist.

i had a lesson w a college professor who didn’t really agree with my strap, obviously i’m not gonna stop using it because it helps me a lot. i just wanted to get other peoples opinion on them. thanks.

I’m a high school clarinet/bass clarinet player looking to audition for some good schools for a performance major. I would say that I’m an above average player as I have made the all VA band 3 years and I’m one of the best players in my district. With that being said, I’m looking for some pieces to play for an audition that would push me and really impress the judges besides the Mozart concerto because #1 it’s over played and #2 it’s too easy. I need a lyrical and a technical work but I’m looking for recommendations on a technical as I have picked Saint Saens 1 for lyrical

Edit: ok I take back the part about Mozart being too easy but I still don’t want to play it for an audition😭

I have a college band audition about 8 months out from today and i need help.

A: The piece above is what they have asked for auditions and the main trouble I’ve been having over the last few days is cut-time. Never liked it or been that good at reading it. Specifically measures 17-34 give me trouble because i get confused with the quarter notes. How do i read/count it?

B: The runs in measures 42 & 43 also give me trouble and i cant move fast enough to do it in time. How can i get better at this?

TL;DR I need help bc am bad at clarinet :<

Hi

Just want to ask more informed players about clarinet mouthpiece tip openings.

I'm primarily a saxophonist but I want to improve my clarinet playing over the summer to help my doubling.

I'm looking at upgrading my mouthpiece, but would it be possible to somewhat match the set up I enjoy playing on my sax?

I play on a 7 tip opening with 3.5 rico royal (blue box) reeds on my tenor sax. I mostly play funk, jazz, fusion and big band/function gigs.

Recently I had to prep an audition for sax and doubing so I'm shredding clarinet more recently, but I am a bit annoyed with the default set up I have.

I currently play on a yamaha 6c mouthpiece with standard 2.5 vandorine reeds. Yeah... quite basic but It just feels like I'm totally pushing air into a tiny cocktail straw compared to the sax set up. I never get to the end of my exhale of breath when playing long tones or scales which feels uncomfortable.

I'm aware that the clarinet and saxophone are two completely different instruments that feel different to play but could anyone offer some mouthpiece/reed recommendations that could help make my set ups a little more consistent?

Even jazz mouthpieces? I love Anat Cohens sound as a reference.

Thanks for reading!

Just got a new clarinet and my throat tone A is like a semitone flat. All the other notes I’ve played on it are fine and are in tune except for A. Is it a mechanical issue?? I also got a new mouthpiece today so maybe that has something to do with it.

Hi everyone! Today I found out something that seems pretty weird to me: a broken Vandoren Traditional Reed #3 (se photo) sounds way better than the new ones I have (#2½, #3 and #3½). Does this make any sense? Has anyone ever experienced this before? Should I change reed or keep going with the broken one?

So I am an incoming freshman at a small college and I emailed the music department about what the auditions were to be involved in the ensembles. They said to bring “whatever I am working on” (Which is nothing). Any music recommendations? I want to show off my level without it being too difficult.

I have played for about 8 years in school and would say I usually play pieces on level 4-5? So intermediate if you would say that.

So I've been told to prepare this excerpt for a master class in August 8th. And I'm not entirely sure where to start if anyone has tips that would be awesome

I'm looking to play a concerto for a competition with my pianist friend. She doesn't have a lot of experience but is willing to learn. I wanted to play something more challenging and less commonly heard.

Does anyone have a lesser known concerto you like? Anything with a piano part that can be easily learned? Thanks for your suggestions!

just bought this guy. located a crack on the barrel and a couple pad mites. the reed was super thin & chipped. cork grease had dirt and tiny hairs in it. only one case buckle works. considering my other options, this was a good deal for its price. my only concern tho is, how much would it collectively cost to repair it?

p.s. i already contacted -almost- every music store near my area. another p.s. im a complete beginner and my knowledge is fairly based on research, not experience. any help, new info, stuff to look out for, would be much appreciated!

Hi! So, in a bid to start playing clarinet again I bought one for $75 off of Facebook marketplace, it's a student Yamaha, but I noticed some pads were missing. So I brought it in to get serviced, and basically my options boil down to this: I can get the one I have repaired for $250+, or I can purchase a brand new student one (my options are Buffet, Yamaha, and something else I can't quite recall). So basically I'm going to go with the new one which I should have done in the first place, but between Buffet and Yamaha, which would you go with? The gentleman at the music store prefers Yamaha, but I'm getting a lot of mixed opinions between them and Buffet. Thoughts?

This is really cool

Paquito playing Benny's clarinet

Small Rant!!!

Y'all.. one of the many repair companies in my area really wanted $300 (1/3 of the price of my plastic clarinet) to repair minor things on my instrument and wanted to keep it for 5 WEEKS (band camp is in 4 weeks and I sent it in 2 weeks ago, didn't give me any sort of information until this week).

They wanted to do this:

Replacing 8 pads (with the low quality ones)

Cleaning the instrument WAS EXTRA.

That's IT.

They really be trying to sucker people into paying this, I can't imagine all the parents who take their kids instruments to these places only to get low quality work done for $$$$

They also told me that my logo on my instrument was a sticker... It was a stamped logo.... 😭😅

Proceeded to try and tell my that my clarinet brand was fake. (Despite me literally buying it from the next store over, but go off).

(I kinda wanted to say some Smart Alec words, but I held my tongue 🙃).

Literally, just going to do it myself. Should have from the start 🥲

Just to clarify, I sent in my professional wooden (BAD IDEA, I KNOW) to this company before and everything went smoothly.

I also usually do the work myself, but I'm held for time at this moment. Their quoted time is much worse. 🤦

Holy cow, is all I have to say in the end.

hey so id consider myself intermediate/beginner with playing clarinet - ive been playing for like five or four years - is it a good time to switch to a new mouth piece and barrel? im still playing with the one mine came with - some Yamaha thing - What brands should i look at ?

How do you do glissando in altissimo without dropping down to a lower partial? Is there something that I’m missing?

Basically just what the title says, trying to figure out how to switch from jazz to concert music easier. I keep accidentally using Jazz articulations :(

So I'm trying to hit C7 on the clarinet but I can't seem to get it unless I take like 2 seconds to change my embochure and play the note. I'm tryna go from G6 to C7 (I'm playing Spohr), but I just can't go straight from G6 to C7 without any interruption. Can someone suggest me a good fingering or any techniques I can do to make this easier?

So in about a month I’m moving away for college where I’m studying Clarinet Performance and Music Ed (super excited) but over the summer I’ve had little to no motivation to pick up my horn… especially to work on my ensemble auditions. I honestly think it might be I’ve raised my standards too high for myself and with a fresh start I have a lot of anxiety about screwing up (to preface in high school I did national and county and made regional/state honor bands and also played stuff like music for Prague as first chair) every time I have picked up my horn to play baermann or auditions I just end up feeling worse about it and I’m really looking for help to “get my mojo” back. I plan on starting up lessons with my teacher again this week so hopefully that helps too, I just want this weird anxiety to go away when I just wanna have fun playing my horn and not feel like a fraud 😭 Thank you if you read everything 🙏

Working on Weber’s Intro, Theme and Variations. Is there another way to hit this Eb without quickly changing my C on the left pinky?