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Author: zhangray4
Date: 2018-02-08 01:43
when I started playing the clarinet, my teacher meant to teach me single lip, but somehow I ended up double lip. neither my teacher or I noticed this until 2 years ago, when I saw my stand partner in an honor band had horrible teeth marks on the mouthpiece cushion, and I brought it up to my teacher. And when I told my teacher at the time, he told me to try switching to single lip, as he believed it would not be as fatiguing.
so I played single lip for half a year. I actually felt it was more tiring because I had to work hard to not bite down. But I must've still got into the habit of biting as I found myself moving from strength 3 V12s to strength 3.5+.
Now I am back to double lip, and it is much better. I can play longer on double lip actually; my jaw muscles don't hurt that much. The only thing that hurts is the pressure of the front teeth on the inner lip due to me practicing much more than I used to. if you wake up and find that your upper lip hurts, try curling it slowly, curling a bit more lip each time. find the amount of lip curled that gives you the least amount of pain (or no pain at all), and play on this "sweet spot." but sometimes the pain is excruciating, maybe due to a lot of playing. I solve this problem by putting paper on either the upper and lower teeth if the lips really hurt that bad. For me, this is last resort, and I use the paper only when during rehearsals for band in school. but just FYI, I played for over 7 hours yesterday when I usually play maybe half that amount, and I still didn't have to use paper.
So some will find double lip easy and some will find it harder. Since I played double lip on a very open Vandoren B45 as a beginner, double lip is actually much much easier for me.
-- Ray Zhang
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