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Instruments: Bass Clarinet
@5 months ago with 160 notes
Instruments: Clarinet
Ivory and brass clarinet, 1830, hnnnggg. “Ngk,” to quote Crowley. Ngk, indeed. Let me approximate how many feels: all of them. All of the feels.
Make sure to always begin your practice day with long tones. I like to do them at 40bpm chromatically upwards. like this:
E, F, F# [wait 4 beats] G, G# A [wait 4 beats] etc…
I go all the way up to high C [2 above staff]. Don’t press yourself too hard if you can’t get up there yet. Just give it time…and a good reed…lol.
Return downwards chromatically in the same fashion, 3 notes per group.
I also spend more time on certian areas of the clarinet. Like the throat tones for example. Here I go chromatically up and down from G to Bb. After a few times up and down i add the C above the Bb to work on pure tone going over the break. In the same fashion I cover the upper altissimo range from high C [1 above staff] up to high G. These you can do at your own tempo, but not too fast. Do this several times until you have the best sound.
These exercises are intended to help with that pure tone. Focus purely on tone during these. Don’t forget to do them every day at the beginning of your practice day.
Hope this helps you! =]
—Brian [justbriann]
As a plus, you should also play with a tuner, and play each individual note as evenly as possible from ppp to fff and back to ppp. So basically as quiet as possible to as loud as possible. This helped me with my tone while playing long tones.
Oscar (bandgeekk)
(Source: clarinetlessons)
@1 year ago with 16 notesMake sure to always begin your practice day with long tones. I like to do them at 40bpm chromatically upwards. like this:
E, F, F# [wait 4 beats] G, G# A [wait 4 beats] etc…
I go all the way up to high C [2 above staff]. Don’t press yourself too hard if you can’t get up there yet. Just give it time…and a good reed…lol.
Return downwards chromatically in the same fashion, 3 notes per group.
I also spend more time on certian areas of the clarinet. Like the throat tones for example. Here I go chromatically up and down from G to Bb. After a few times up and down i add the C above the Bb to work on pure tone going over the break. In the same fashion I cover the upper altissimo range from high C [1 above staff] up to high G. These you can do at your own tempo, but not too fast. Do this several times until you have the best sound.
These exercises are intended to help with that pure tone. Focus purely on tone during these. Don’t forget to do them every day at the beginning of your practice day.
Hope this helps you! =]
—Brian [justbriann]
As a plus, you should also play with a tuner, and play each individual note as evenly as possible from ppp to fff and back to ppp. So basically as quiet as possible to as loud as possible. This helped me with my tone while playing long tones.
Oscar (bandgeekk)
(Source: clarinetlessons)
