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Re: Troubles with my clarinet tone

Author: William
Date: 2014-08-04 03:10

One way to help cure your tendency to bite is to begin each practice session playing with a double lip embouchure--lips covering both upper and lower teeth. If you cannot make a sound, then your reed is definitely too hard. After a few minutes of double, switch back to single but try to use more upper lip support rather than just all tooth. After you catch on to upper lip involvement, your tone quality and intonation should also improve. This will take some focused, relentless practice and will not happen "over night" but with the "long haul".

Another observation that may help--too many clarinetist's rely more on the stiffness of the reed for tone quality than on the formation and strength of the embouchure. I recommend softer rather than harder combined with the embouchure practice I mentioned above. Playing clarinet need not be painful.....good luck.

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