Better Clarinet Tone in 5 Days -Day 3 - Clarinet Embouchure - What Should You Do With Your Mouth?
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Michelle Anderson, founder of Clarinet Mentors (www.learnclarinetnow.com) presents:
Better Clarinet Tone in 5 Days - Day 3 - Clarinet Embouchure - What Should You Do With Your Mouth?
Enjoy these 5 sessions, each under 15 minutes long to give you some skills and exercises to sound better on the clarinet. Here is the schedule:
Day 1 - The Basics That You Need For Better Clarinet Tone
This is an introduction to things that can most help you improve your clarinet sound: Embouchure, Air Support, Gear and Your Concept Of Sound
Day 2 - Blow It! How Better Air Creates Better Tone On Clarinet
Players of almost every level can continue to improve their air support, which is key to creating a more beautiful, flowing sound on the clarinet. Learn three technics that you can try daily to consistently improve your clarinet tone this week.
Day 3 - Clarinet Embouchure - What Should You Do With Your Mouth?
The shape of our lips, tongue, teeth placement and use of facial muscles all have an impact on our clarinet sound. Do you know the best habits? Do you know how your tongue shape affects your sound? You can improve your sound a great deal by understanding the shapes you want to create, and using the training exercises in today’s lesson to get there.
Day 4 - Finally! You Can Blame Your Equipment...
Although your knowledge, air support and embouchure have the biggest impact on the sound coming out of your clarinet, gear does influence it. In today’s session, you’ll get an overview of how your tone is affected by reeds, mouthpieces, barrels and clarinets. This may help you decide if you should upgrade any of your clarinet gear.
Day 5 - What Is The Beautiful Clarinet Sound That You Want To Make? How Do You Get There?
You may have heard a performance on the clarinet that represents THE sound that you would like to make. How do you get there? Here are some tangible pointers for you to consistently move toward the clarinet sound that you want to create.
For more great clarinet resources, join the Clarinet Mentors Community at www.LearnClarinetNow.com. - Hudba
Thank you from Norway. Beginner and great grandmother
Hello
Thank you so much Michelle Anderson!
From Mexico, begginer clarinetist.
Looking forward to become a military musician.
All of your videos have been very helpful.
Hi Michelle thanks for your time to prepare such good advices , specially for me that starting to play at age of 59 , and i am enjoy a lot your methods and the way you explain and gives us an incentive!
Thanks Dirlei from Brazil
Oh my! I never even thought about a few of these things. Much thanks!
Hi, Croatia clarinetist here
Thank you for your videos
Michelle you’re an excellent musician and teacher. Love your videos.
As a clarinetist with decades of experience I have watched and enjoyed a few of your videos to explore online instruction. I am a engineer by trade. Decades ago I taught numerous high school students from day one with a focus on sound production. By careful coaching and trouble shooting before any bad habits developed I could get enthusiastic students to sound like pros in 8 weeks. I did not venture into the altissimo but stopped at high C at the 8 wk point but did teach a few higher notes later in the year. Some never squeaked. Although they sounded good they couldn't play much. I mention this to indicate I have experience teaching sound production but i am certain your teaching experience far far outweighs mine.
I hope you don't take offence to this, I would like to offer a different and technically correct explanation of airflow in a wind instrument. The flow through an instrument is controlled by laws of fluid dynamics and things like Bernouli's principle. We have no direct control of velocity as you imply. Our diaphram can only pressurize our lungs and oral cavity. The flow rate in the system is determined only by pressure and the cross sectional area of the exit orifice, which is the mouthpiece and reed opening. When the reed is vibrating its opening is changing. This modulates the flow. The airflow upstream of the reed (your mouth) has no specific direction or much velocity. If you think of the modest volume of your lungs and how long we can play a note we must empty our lungs at a slow rate. When you demonstrate velocity with the piece of paper you are exhaling 20 or more time faster than when we play. Playing velocity is more like yawn and not at all like a cough. Your velocity model is misleading and incorrect.
We have only two fundamental controls on continuous sound production. Air pressure and reed force. Air velocity behind the reed is a function of pressure and orifice size and is inconsequential. No amount of tongue or throat manipulation will materially affect it. We have only control of pressure, while velocity is what it is. There is no focus of the air stream.
Teaching sound production requires focus on just a few fundamentals, no magic required. Beginners will struggle to produce air pressure.We mitigate that with soft reeds and student mouthpiece facing. That will improve with training. The second is embrochure and reed force control. Regulating reed force by feel is the first step but regulating by sound is more precise. Long stable tones are the answer. One often overlooked step is teaching the student what to listen for. They hearing for the first time with their ears and through bone conduction in their teeth so confusion is common. Telling them how they sound is key. I work on mouthpiece position, lower lip and teeth position. We experiment with too much and too little so they understand the effects and get back to the correct location at home.
I'm Canadian too.
Keep up the good work.
Ty... great info...as I am a beginner on the clarinet.
Love your videos. thank you!
Thank you!!!!!
Hi I Michelle I am from England, I am a beginner on the clarinet. TANK YOU
You’re an excellent musician and instructor. Love your videos.
Oh, and greetings from sunny Florida. :-)
Hi I Michelle I am from England ,I always look forward to your lessons
Thank you so much it has helped me so much thank you
Eunice
`Thanks for the kind comment, Eunice. I hope you are enjoying your clarinet.
Thanks for encouraging double lip. Kalmen Opperman insisted I play that way because I started out biting.
You talked about dr. Carla wallach. Can you please put a link to the conversation?
Hi, Texas USA my names Natalia and This is my 3rd year playing clarinet but I stopped for a while so I need help
Hallo I live in Evesham,England,Having only started two years ago at the age of 70 I really enjoy it but I hold my breath whilst playing and that seriously restricts my progress.How can I change this,I have the same problem with swimming,
I'd love to see a video in which you actually teach us how to do these things that you talk about and demonstrate. Pulling the lip down means nothing. Where exactly do we pull it down to? And what are the teeth doing when we're doing this. And the huffing and whispering from the previous video didn't teach me anything. How do you actually do those things?
Your vids have some great content but they're too "sporadic" and unreliable. You don't seem serious about your channel.
Crazy comment
Hi Graeme - Thanks for taking the time to comment. I always find it baffling when people criticize a channel that offers well over 100 free educational videos, that take hours to film, edit and upload and have been enjoyed over 2 million times on CZcams. Even it this isn't "serious enough" for you, it seems to be beneficial to many people in the world. I hope you enjoy your clarinet playing, and perhaps you can send great compliments to the people who do have "serious" channels. I know they will appreciate the acknowledgement of their contributions.
hours to film, edit and upload , it is a stupid comment fron graeme
How unbelievably rude & ungrateful! I find anything Michelle offers really helpful
GG ......Wow .....You just blew me away ......What a rude and immature comment to make .......This instructor is one of the best I have come across on CZcams and to say she isn't serious about what she is doing is ludicrous ......Really, really mind blowingly ludicrous .....Madam Michelle is off the charts in how well she presents things and how comprehensive ALL her videos are .......Someday when I get to them all I'll be able to verify that but I fully expect the next 100 I've yet to see will be as good as the first 6 or so fantastic ones that I have seen so far .......You should make a full and honest apology to her for your poor observations and extremely rude statement or don't make any more comments to her and her community ever again ........We've got some basics to work on and nobody needs this kind of trolling to deal with ......