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Re: Double-lip for beginner

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-10-31 04:14

ssterling wrote:

> After recently visiting
> the music department of a local college, however, I came out
> convinced by the clarinet professor that double-lip was the way
> to go.
>

It's too bad he didn't offer a reason for having even brought it up during a preview visit. Was he teaching a sample lesson or was this just conversation?

> Would switching to
> double-lip risk screwing up my already-established single-lip
> embouchure,

No. It might improve it.

> making my upcoming college audition a blunder?

But, as Caroline said, not so close to taking college auditions. You should just concentrate on learning your audition material until they're over and you've been accepted somewhere.

> Or
> would it be just something I could try and brush off if I
> dislike it after a few months or so?

For many of us who play double lip it starts out as a temporary approach to fixing a specific problem. Some players then go back, applying what they've learned toward improving their single lip approach. Others find double lip more satisfying and stay with it.

> P.S.: I've read post after post on the BBoard regarding
> double-lip embouchure, but there didn't seem to be much said by
> nor about those who weren't pros/'up there' or just started out
> double-lip to begin with.

I don't think *everyone* who has commented in favor of double lip in past threads is a "pro/'up there'" - whatever that means. The fact is you won't find many American clarinetists (amateur, pro or in between) who started with double lip - that's not the way clarinet is taught in our public school band programs, which is where most of us in the U.S. started playing. Maybe some of our European members started with double lip or know players who did and will comment specifically about it.

Karl

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