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| Is Bass Clarinet hard? |
| HECK YES! |
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| It has its days. |
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 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:13 pm
So I'm the equivalent of second chair bass clarinet in my school band. There are only two of us bass clarinet players. The other player, Zack, totally has everything figured out and is doing IMEA scales super fast. I still can't do 12 Grand Master Scales. I got the crappy bass clarinet donated from some kid in the high school. Great. My conductor hates me. I can't figure out these stupid goshdarn notes, and Bassie (my bass clarinet) decides when to hit a high note. She decides when it's time to hit a low note, and she decides when it's time to shut up and do what I tell her to. Once, during the Solo and Ensemble Contest, I was all ready and pumped and in tune and perfect. Then, the second I start playing, she decides she's gonna make all my G's sharp!
UGH! Similar experiences?
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:55 pm
I am the lead bass clarinet player in my Sr. high band... There is only one other and he's a total newb. My bass clarinet is the best one that is rented out at the school and it is still very crappy. The highest it plays is a high E (sometimes). It squeaked so loud while playing on a trip to Italy that everyone heard it *sweatdrop*
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:25 am
Bass clarinet is so easy. Its just, i just changed to tenor sax and I haven't played bass clarinet in a while, but it is so easy!!!!!
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:31 am
if you know how to play clarinet its super easy i played clarinet in 6th grade first then got the chance to play bass in the last part of the year and it was ssoooo easy.6th is the first year anyone can be when i played bn band so i was a newb when i played bass
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:55 pm
i have no idea how to play bass clatinet but i want to so i can't be any help, but i have a b flat clarinet and i loves it because it's like a piano only u blow in it! heart heart
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:16 pm
I once had to play bass clarinet for I think a couple of weeks because my clarinet was being fixed and my band director need more low voices. There was another guy who played it much longer than me. I was able to get like the basic notes ( middle C to B flat.) I couldn't get much higher because we found out mine was broken. I ended up switching back to clarinet. You'll be fine it you can have a very intense and controlled air stream.
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:14 pm
It depends,
no instrument is ever easy.
but IMO playing bass clarinet is totally worth it.
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:34 am
Thanks.
Another thing... do yall know on the cases of any instrument, they have those clasps??
Well last year, I came to warm up and I opened my case, and the clasps just fell off, just like that. It was crazy.
Anything like that ever happen to you??? And if it did, what went wrong?
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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:36 pm
Well I would assume that its just like playing Bflat clarinet since its just a deeper stretched out version but I wouldn't know because I play Clarinet heart but my friend plays bass clarinet and she says it's easy except you have to put wayy more air in it. And the bass clarinets at our school are very crappy like my friend has to SHARE a ligature with some other guy in the other band ewww thats soo gross >.< and the cases suck. My friend's case has one of the clasps broken so she like got a piece of rope and tied it together XD so you could try that to temporaly fix it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:28 am
KayKay1220 Well I would assume that its just like playing Bflat clarinet since its just a deeper stretched out version but I wouldn't know because I play Clarinet heart but my friend plays bass clarinet and she says it's easy except you have to put wayy more air in it. And the bass clarinets at our school are very crappy like my friend has to SHARE a ligature with some other guy in the other band ewww thats soo gross >.< and the cases suck. My friend's case has one of the clasps broken so she like got a piece of rope and tied it together XD so you could try that to temporaly fix it. how is sharing a ligature gross? the ligature gets probably the least amount of spit on it compared to any other part of a woodwind...unless you have a crappy embouchure and spit flies out of your mouth and onto your ligature while you're playing. but then that's your fault that it's gross.
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