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I'm a music ed and instrument repair major,but if I ever do perform in a developed orchestra or something, it will likely be on either contrabass clarinet or sopranino... the two polar opposites.

ehhhh?? o-o Wait whaa? So I failed in giving help? O_O but it was good trying wha wha???

::hits head::

I'm gonna lose my advice skills, thanks to my friend who was my student---because she's quitting band -_-

she didn't even leave a good impression for her last time playing (she's lucky mr. acciani wasn't doing the test -.-...she's lucky she got me, kimmy and ann judging her, we were still harsh =P but atleast we didn't say anything...) it was a horrible impression >.> tch i'm disappointed in her

errr yeah o_O

My last Clariente cost somewhere between 1600 and 1000. It doesn't matter if its plastic or word and yes i will have to march with it

arian_X- hmm :/ you mean that its like air is coming from your mouth? like...er..hard to explain -_-, basically air comes out from the sides? well maybe your embouchure is too lose? Tighten the corners, not the lips, if you tighten your lips the more you'll run into that problem more -_-, i actually have that problem but its fixed...i think...a bit, if i play for three hours then air starts to leak out of the sides =_=

as for the squeaking--you might be a bit nervous or tense when in the higher registers causing you to bite on the mouth piece squeazing the life out of the mouth piece...D=...or your thinking, "its soo high x_x" or "okay a high note" and for some reason our brains can sorta freak out about that and we will squeak or something -_-....you can try fixing that by sorta moving down when you play, or thinking its a low note--that makes it easier to reach. Or your just not putting enough air or breathing from the diaphrapm

now-- i'm a middle schooler who has gotten demoted to seventh chair so my advice may be wrong...i don't think it will...O_O because unfortunately i'm not one of those people in those bad middle schools who believe people who hand me bad reeds saying they are the best xP because my middle school's music program is not like that blaugh

so anyways...

-_- i think my clarinets broken, or its the fact my reed is far too soft (was asked ten billion times to move down to a 3 and did o_<) or just not enough air...because my high notes (third octave) sound horrible sometimes...it doesn't usually sound like that -_-used to last year when i first began to play ::shivers:: =/ sometimes its like *___* its in tune and pretty! but other times its x___x ew flat! Must fix it =_=

arghhh! my teacher's giving me a scale test, i'm not too worried about it but a few of my scales are a bit rough...not really smooth in the high register =_= i'm trying to fix that...

its NOT all 48 scales o_o if it was i wouldn't be online right now

its important i perfect my scales...my teacher drops people dead who don't practice their scales or pass the scale test...i've seen it happen...my friend nik D= fwshh! my teacher left him...x_X

...why didn't he leave kimberly though? o_o i think it are arpregios she didn't practice or i think the minors...(she's had him ten times longer then i have...only had the teacher for two months =P) well...o_o he's a weirdo soo yeah

*waves* Hi! I'm a clarinet player, and i play in my high school's marching band, and concert band. i've been playing for about.....7 years now, and although i'm not the best player in my section, i'm not too shabby. heart

I play clarinet, but I did switch to the alto sax for a little bit. When I would play the low notes on the sax, if I used any of the fingers on my right hand it would go up an ocave, like pressing in the register key. I had to severely relax my embouchure to keep the note low

but for you, you might have a harder time with the really high notes, and you might need to have your embrouchure tighter when you play those notes. You might have trouble with some of the fingerings. low B flat on the clarinet is the same as F natural on the alto. but when you get into upper register on the clarinet, the fingerings for notes become the same for D thru C (I think).

blaugh YAY! this saturday I'm getting a new mouth piece!!!!!!!! Going to this music store in L.A called RDG woodwinds...i think o.O;;;;;;

>w< I'm listening to my lesson and I find i'm improving uberly fast O_o;; =D, o_o yeahh randomness....

argh! i think my clarinet audition is next week =_=

had a scale test today during clarinet lessons gonk in my opinion I failed it, i got a three on my chromatic O_O X_X _(out of ten) and i think a 3 on my DMajor too O_O X_X for some reasons i have some slips o_O; crying i was playing it perfectly during the weekend too >_<

Miyoko, you know better than that! C'mon, you should be playing the chromatic scale in 4 octaves now at least