Mendelssohn Scherzo (from Midsummer Night's Dream), Clarinet Orchestral Excerpt
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Yes, one of the most feared excerpts at any audition. Topics discussed: 1) How to start this excerpt when sitting in an audition, 2) Trills: 1 or 2?
You are the most creative, generous and sincere clarinet player on CZcams.
I Agree!!! :)
You guys work so well together, its like your one clarinetist!
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I love the song and how you breathed at the same time as yourself. I am a bass clarinet player and you have helped me sooooo much along the way! I will be watching more of your videos to get better!
Soooo much dynamic range man. Your intonation over the break is astounding, I usually find it to be shrill and annoying, but you make it sound incredible
You sound great as always - that other guy, though . . . :-)
Any suggestions on how to get the basic tonguing speed up to Midsummer Night tempi? If a player can't tongue at that speed, the rest won't matter.
The general tendency I've seen is that people generally use too much tongue and try to tongue these too short, which is counterprodutive. Don't try to tongue short and keep the movement of the tongue to a minimum. If you try to make it short it will just sound pecky and clipped. Then just very lightly touch the reed (the tongue tickler exercise is great for that if you know that). As always you just have to gradually work on this from a slow tempo.
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Great advice, relaxing prior to playing is paramount in an audition. The whole video is great advice. In accord with your tip for practicing the trills slowly: my piano teacher drilled the "two times slow, one time fast" practicing concept into me as a child growing up; sometimes she would make me practice a phrase slowly many, many times until I couldn't play it wrong, which is along the lines of what you were saying ("play it slowly until you're comfortable and then gradually increase tempo" [paraphrasing]). I carried those concepts with me for learning my other instruments, all the way through college, and still use them today. Practicing slowly is important for building muscle memory and acquainting yourself with a new piece. Again, you've given such great tips which should be employed by all who play an instrument. Thanks for sharing. :)
As soon as I saw two of you, I instantly started smiling as I knew this would make me laugh. Your tone and as well as teaching material is great even if you aren't a clarinetist. Keep up the good work!
Tasty clipping.
your speed and accuracy is beautiful! woaaaaaaa
How can I practice my articulation to make it as clean as yours?
Aidan Grivas Articulation is a big problem for me, I'd appreciate a video on it as well
Aidan Grivas here are two videos guys...#1: czcams.com/video/Vs2gZcQ4y1w/video.html
Aidan Grivas aaaand #2: czcams.com/video/_gkcynXdg0M/video.html
Michael you are AWESOME!
This video is great. Please do more excerpts! So helpful!
I think one thing people could pay attention too is the hemiola in that very last exerpt. With the written out turn around and similarly with the previous line that landed on the F# at the start of the measure. The last 16th note figure outlines the chord and proceeds to do two turn around on f then d. I feel like understanding that provides some benefit toward the phrasing of the figure. IE much like before with the rest the A at the start belongs to the eighth notes preceding it where as the two turnaround stand pretty blatently. Essentially A edim-f-d A-E in a dominant function(much like the D to A dominant function preceding) then the 16th figure being with a leading tone of f to that key moving via the minor mediant relationship to return to the D from the beginning of the line.
GREAT teaching is all I can say THANKS
Excellent presentation! Good stuff.
Thank you so much for this great video and your channel!
Great lesson trills technique. Thank you!!
Very nice as usual :) ... but how to get that articulation 😓 ?
You going CGI on us? Continue to love your music.
so when you become godly on clarinet you can split in two people! cool
He has enough talent for 2 people.. and then some!
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Fantastic, thank you!
I have been playing clarinet for about 7 years now and I had no idea that you can trill from F to G with the Ab key
"This is a tendinitis factory " lmao
OMG, THERE ARE TWO OF THEM !
how do you deal with intonation with throat tones? it might be different for every clarinet/clarinetist. For me my throat tone Ab, A, and Bb are all really really sharp and I need to use resonnance fingerings to get it in tune. what do i do when theres a situation where its impossible to put down those extra fingers?
God bless you.
oh my lord can you please tell me your trills sound so clean and good like what do I have to do exactly so my trills sounds like yours??? Thank you!!!
Knowing multiple parts to a piece is something I did pretty often. In my school's 8th grade band, I remember we had a lot of disagreements over who should play which part in the clarinet section, so a lot of us ended up learning the 1st and 2nd clarinet parts. In the high school band, a friend of mine in the clarinet section and I decided to switch between the 2nd and 3rd parts for each piece. So if I played 2nd on one piece, he'd play 2nd on the next and I would play 3rd. For various reasons, I ended up learning both the 2nd and 3rd parts (and even a few 1st parts) on several of our pieces. My band director encourages everyone in the section to play different parts, and I know most of the clarinet players in that section did just that. One time at the end of my freshman year, our section leader asked me if I wanted to play the 1st part on a piece I had been playing 2nd/3rd on. And a few weeks into 10th grade I switched to bass clarinet, which meant I had to learn new parts to the pieces I had been playing 2nd clarinet on up to that point. So I've probably learned multiple parts on the majority of pieces I've played.
This is the end of the comment, and this is the part where I question whether or not this has any point whatsoever. And I believe the answer is no. Oh well. I mean, I guess one thing I'm saying is that when I hear "Learn the 1st and 2nd parts" in this video, I think to myself, yep that's 100% fine by me.
Hello I've been playing Clarinet for 5 to 6 months I haven't done high notes yet so can I play this it sound amazing
OMG that’s so helpful!
Can u plz make a video on how to play low notes on bass clarinets because I am having trouble on STAR TREK where I have to play short E notes and low F notes and it's hard
Hi, thank you for this super video, It Is very useful ti learn that excerpt properly. I only wanted to ask if it is possible to play it with normal staccato. I'm still studying how to do double staccato, so i'm studying the excerpt with the simple one. What's your opinion? Thank you for answering.
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This *is* normal staccato :)
@@earspasm thank you maestro :)
Great as always. It it just me or is the sound clipping?
Yeah, it clipped at the end.
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What is you set up? Is all of that powerful tone your bass clarinet lungs 😎
Selmer Sig
Vandoren B45 Dot
Vandoren Optimum Lig
Great playing along with comedy with your twin brother lol.
Thaaaanks for the video!
I have a question
If a musitian can do this solo (and it sounds good) with the double tonguing, is correct to do it in audition? Or maybe the "old school method" suggest to do it with the single?
I still need to work on my tone and fast tonguing. Do you have any tips to practice tonguing to get that fast and make sure every note can be heard?
When you have in your earbud, like you do here and in the Goplerud video, are you listening to a metronome or the recording of yourself playing the other half or a combination of both? Thank you!
It's a combination of both...
What are your thoughts on synthetic reeds? Like Legere for bass clarinet I'm asking because the last time you played a legere reed was in 2014 on a video.
Steve Coronado Check out the "My Reeds Suck, Part 2" video on the channel.
Which program are you using for video unison recording?
hihow.did you record.this video?how.did you edit it together?which sjareware did you use to record?
Where can I get this sheet music???
What's your opinion about Chopens Noctiurn for clarinet?
This is getting out of hand, now there's two of them
I really want to know what type/brand of clarinet you have! This video was so satisfying to listen to!
He's playing Selmer signature in this video, now he plays his own custom black selmer privileges
Do you have tips on how to keep your clarinets keys clean ad shiny
What software did you use to do this?
apparently Michael can use Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Sometimes when I play my low g it turns into a high c sounding note? And it won't play the g!!
Three Turtles Make sure you're not putting too much reed in your mouth, having too much can make your note squeak.
Hopefully you've made progress :)
Amazing! How do you feel about Basset Clarinets? I just discovered them a couple of days ago and I'm fascinated by the concept of a Bb clarinet with a low C extension. Bass is still my heart though.
Professa_252 an A clarinet with range to it's low C ;)
I'm aware, but you can also get them in Bb. That's what I would get
Great tips, thanks! Just wondering which mouthpiece you use. Looks like an Optimum ligature.
Francis Taylor B45 IIRC
B45 •
( B45 Dot )
GREAT ;)
Funny video xD
Cool Music
LOL!!! Excellent
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This makes me think of my Curtis addition, in '99. I was told to forget everything I'd practiced for, as was published, and to play Midsummer Night's Dream. Well, I wasn't sent home crying, but I also didn't got to Curtis.
Ready? Yeah
It was all good until he said:"...even bass clarinetist"
How did you get 2 on video
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them
Is that triple tonguing in the beginning?
Vanessa Reyes No you can single tounge it or double tongue it, it's not a triplet rhythm so no triple tonguing
May I ask what ligature you use?
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Awesome, but ouch, that clipping. Bring the level down a little please!?
Mendelssohn was cruel.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
Meant clean and shiny
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I think the guy on the right is way better than the ugly guy to the left. Someone needs to switch the guy on the left to bass clarinet ;)
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"Ach du lieber, senor Spasms"! Two of you - may God forbid! I MUST get this off my chest; You were simply "trilling" to watch! "Estoy Loco en mi coco"?! Have you ever made a "planter" of one of your clarinets? AND how about the infamous "swynet"? My grandpa used to say, "three strings stretched across a pig's "behinder" & you pluck them with your teeth"!!! That'll give you a"trill" beyond belief!!!!!
Nice shadow clone technology
ff? it's not a polka! piano piano for gods sake
Your analysis of the section mentioned at 10:45 is wrong. It's a hemiola section, and the notes are in groups of four, and each group leads into the fourth note of the group: [B->A->C->B][G#->F#->A->G#][E->D#->F#->E].
Phrasing it this way emphasizes the hemiola, and shows the structure of the descending E major arpeggio (B->G#->E).
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Shadow clone jutsu lmao
This is sad
I bet the second clarinet could not play the first clarinet part (this is wat everione thinks about the non first clarinet)
Lol reading midsummer night's dream in English right now