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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:41 pm
I was asked to play clarinet and bass clarinet in the wind band for my school musical and on the regular clarinet I have to play the crazy crazy high F# and the G. I can make the note sound if I go up chromatically...but it's hard to go right to it. Any advice, besides the obvious?
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:07 pm
I feel for you... those notes are a pain sweatdrop .
I guess you can practice like crazy mrgreen . That should work 3nodding ...hopefully
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:16 am
well work on going up to the notes..start on lower notes and work your way up to the high ones..i have trouble too...but i eventually get it. also if you are on a 2 1/2 reed, you might need to go up to a 3, i changed to a 3 and now i can play the notes without playing them chromaticly.
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:12 am
First neutral stop considering those notes "crazy high". They're not really very high at all. Second, obtain a decent embouchure. I'm guessing from the fact that you have trouble with these notes that you're using an incorrect embouchure. Instead of typing out a huge response telling you how your embouchure should be, I'll trust that you'll find a private teacher and have them work on that with you. Third, Flex your abs like crazy. (yes, you do have abs, even if they're not apparent.)
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:03 pm
Okay well for higher notes you want to have fast hair flowing through your clarinet. trust me it helps smile Don't consider them "crazy high" or you'll think you cant achieve it. Just make sure you practice and breathing exercises always help me smile
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:40 pm
Tighten your lips too. smile Everyone's advice is very good, but you have to tighten your lips and increase air speed. Other than that, just be confident, baby. You've got it!
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:13 pm
Eyes of Blue Fire Tighten your lips too. smile Everyone's advice is very good, but you have to tighten your lips and increase air speed. Other than that, just be confident, baby. You've got it! no. just no. your embouchure should stay the same throughout the entire range of the clarinet. (disregarding notes in the extreme altisimo...such as a double high c). Also, feel free to tighten, or loosen depending on the circumstance, to stay in tune on a note you KNOW will be out of tune. but other than that, your embouchure should stay the same from a low E to a high G
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:44 am
Jolly SoftballChick Okay well for higher notes you want to have fast hair flowing through your clarinet. trust me it helps smile Don't consider them "crazy high" or you'll think you cant achieve it. Just make sure you practice and breathing exercises always help me smile
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:34 pm
Grace the Orgasmic Muffin Jolly SoftballChick Okay well for higher notes you want to have fast hair flowing through your clarinet. trust me it helps smile Don't consider them "crazy high" or you'll think you cant achieve it. Just make sure you practice and breathing exercises always help me smile that's like saying "it always works" to kill someone's loved ones to make them cry. there are more effective, less damaging ways to evoke tears.(now take that analogy and apply it to music, and clarinet)
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:10 pm
one thing is you can start at the highest note closest to it then practice going up to it. each time u do u should be able to start 1 or 2 notes higher than before. if that doesn't help then try some diffrent size reeds. it'll be hard to switch between clarinet and bass. beleive me i have to do it all the time.
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:06 pm
phenoix fire one thing is you can start at the highest note closest to it then practice going up to it. each time u do u should be able to start 1 or 2 notes higher than before. if that doesn't help then try some diffrent size reeds. it'll be hard to switch between clarinet and bass. beleive me i have to do it all the time. no neutral it's not hard if you know what you're doing. i can switch from soprano clarinet to bass clarinet to soprano sax to alto sax to bari sax neutral it's not hard.
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:56 pm
Idk what the people above me said, cause i'm too lazy to read them >.<
But, let me say that those notes are kinda low compared to what I have to play for marching this year. Just get a good reed, tight embouchure, and lots of air, and you should do fine(:
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:30 pm
9119BRE Idk what the people above me said, cause i'm too lazy to read them >.< But, let me say that those notes are kinda low compared to what I have to play for marching this year. Just get a good reed, tight embouchure, and lots of air, and you should do fine(: i really hope you don't mean the F# and G 4 ledger lines above the staff neutral no body in their right mind would WRITE much higher than that, even though it is possible to play that high.
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:01 pm
Okay, well the only advice I can give is to tongue lighter and practice, practice, practice! Btw, my BD told us that the good way to set your embouchure is to do it as if you were sucking on a smoothie straw. You can use your finger if you want. It basically helps you to drop your jaw, therefore making the notes come out easier and with better tone quality.
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