Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-04-17 05:02
Always something to consider if your embouchure is tiring quickly is reed strength. Are you working at all hard to produce your sound? You shouldn't need to squeeze your lips together around the mouthpiece - just enough active engagement to close off any air leak. Later, when your lips are stronger, you can decide whether it improves sound or response to use a harder reed and apply more pressure around the mouthpiece, but for now, the easiest response should give you reasonable embouchure endurance and let you build gradually.
If you're playing double lip exclusively, you may want to try a neck strap or just resting the clarinet on your knee or between your knees as you begin to feel tired (but, ideally, before a leak begins). It should build endurance to rest when you feel tired for 10 or 15 minutes and then continue to play. You need time to get blood supply back into the muscles.
Karl
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