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 Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:34 am
Does anyone have any advice on how to get your tone on a clarinet to sound better when you play the super high notes? Advice would be much welcomed.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:51 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:50 am
Air support. Breathe from the bottom of your lungs and use a good volume/speed of air behind each note. Also, make sure your clarinet is in good shape. If it hasn't been repaired in more than two years and you aren't sure if it needs it, ask your teacher to have a look or send it to a shop for necessary adjustments.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:55 pm
Air support. Breathe from your diafram. It helps if you do breathing exercises before you play. Like breathe in for 4 counts out for 4 repeat in for 8 out for 4 ect and when you do it make sure that you cant bring in anymore air in after the counts of taking in air.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:01 am
You're most likely going to end up going flat. So, have lots of air from your stomach; not your chest, and lip it up. Keep your embrochure (Spelling?) tight.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:46 pm
if you are using a 2 1/2 reed (especially a Rico Royal) go to a 3, its better for higher notes, at least that is what my band director says
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:03 pm
make sure your sitting up straight ...that was my problem highest d was a pain
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:22 pm
Sit up straight, use lotsa air, make sure your embouchure is right, and check your tuning.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:15 pm
1. Posture is good. Sit up striaght, feet glued to the floor[not really], and sitting at the front edge of your seat. With no clarinet in your knee[ or holding it up in your knees]
2. Tongue position. Try to have your tongue extreamly close to the roof of your mouth. Like a EEEEEEEEEEE sound.
3. Air
Try blowing harder. you'll get use to it.
4. Ash you BD to tune you. If your out of tune, then that migth be the problem. Try pulling out the barul [the little part under you mouth peice]
5. Use your clarinet alot. try practicing eveyr signle day. Sometimes your clarinet can get very flat if you don't practice alot. Just a average band lesson per day won't help.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:53 am
as my crazy band director Mr. Greene would say: "PUSH DOWN ON YOUR DIAPHRAGM!" ( or however you spell it)
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:04 am
DarknessFail_-_ Does anyone have any advice on how to get your tone on a clarinet to sound better when you play the super high notes? Advice would be much welcomed. well i think you should get a higher level reed....i used to play on a size 2 and a half reed and i always had trouble on the higher notes.....but then i got a size three reed and now my clarinet sounds so much better and i can play my high notes all the way up to the highest perfectly!
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:11 pm
try bringing your tounge up like when you say eee that's what i've been told
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:41 pm
some time its easier if you take more mouth peace
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:35 pm
1. Maintain a steady, fast stream of air.
2. Keep your embouchure firm and your chin flat.
3. Roll your thumb up slightly to open the register key.
I just got this stuff out of my music book. I haven't learned the high notes either, and yes so far they are hard (I can't get the notes out...)
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:56 pm
1. Play with a fast, steady and strong stream of air FROM YOUR DIAPHRAGM.
2. Make sure your embouchure is tight and strong at the corners of your mouth.
3. DO NOT bite your reed.
4. Take as much mouthpiece as you can without squealing.
5. Open your throat in the back as if there was an egg stuck in it. (Trust me, this helps. Think OOOOOOOOOOOH)
6. Whatever you do, don't close off your nose. Believe it or not, if your mouth has more room and air to move that reed with, you'll get a better tone.
7. Play on 3.5/4 reeds when possible. Anything below 3.5 is really too soft for higher notes.
8. PRACTICE your chromatic scales from Low E/E-flat (depending on which type of clarinet you have) and work your way up to the top.
By following these rules, I routinely made it to the highest D/E on my clarinet all the time.
Enjoy.
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