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 Re: Universal Truths About Learning to Play Bass Clarinet
Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date:   2017-07-25 23:55

Regardless of your 'starting' instrument:

1. In concert bands you will be frustrated by having all the low brass and the other low woodwinds doubling your part 99% of the time. Also, the band director will hate you and constantly tell you to play more quietly.

2. In orchestras you will mostly count rests during the pieces you actually play on, while the majority of the time your services are not needed at all.

3. In jazz there are only about 17 bass clarinetists in the entire world actually gigging; the rest of us are kidding ourselves.

4. In the popular/commercial music world, there are no bass clarinets used, period.

5. Playing shows is sometimes the most fun you can have, but be prepared (and competent) to double on at least a half dozen other woodwinds if you want to be asked to sit in the pit.

6. Bass clarinet bridge keys get bent on a regular basis. Automatic double register vent mechanisms will fail at the worst possible times (this is one of the hundreds of corollaries to Murphy's Law).
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