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RE: Upper register/reed

Author: Meredith H.
Date: 1999-12-05 23:33

High notes take time. Don't get discouraged you have only just started. My students don't usually get to play about Bb for at least 6 months (depending on the student) and even then they are usually hopelessly flat for several months while their embouchures develop properly. I can remember how much I hated going over the break when I started and how terrible it sounded. Keep practicing it will get better but don't expect it to happen over night. Learning and instrument is very rewarding and lots of fun but it takes hours and hours of practice and a good dose of patience.

I learnt clarinet as a kid and took of brass three years ago at age 26. I suffered the same as you and wanted to play better than all of the kids after about 3 weeks. It didn't happen. It was probably worse because I already knew clarinet and I got really frustrated having to go back to playing 'Jingle Bells' and 'Mary had a little lamb' after playing reasonably advanced clarinet music. Now, after three years of very hard work, I play the principal tenor horn part in my local brass band. You will get your rewards they may just take, as mine did, a little longer than you would want them too.

Happy clarinet playing, you did pick a great instrument,

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