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Re: Books DVD's to assists in learning

Author: OmarHo
Date: 2007-08-21 15:38

If you are planning on self-teaching yourself or just want books as an additional resource to lessons, then I would recommend getting David Pino's "The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing" published by Dover. I like it because it's very concise and good for beginners to follow.

http://www.banddirector.com/ has some good instructional videos and articles.

However, nothing can beat taking lessons. For example, if you want to learn how to form a "proper" embouchure in the Pino book it says stuff like make sure that you have 3/8 of an inch between the top and lower teeth. But how are you supposed to correctly do that? A problem I had with following these directions was that they weren't natural for me, so I would form an overly tensed embouchure that would take about 4 seconds to form before putting the mouthpiece in my mouth.

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