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 Re: clarinet gear set-up - beginner question
Author: SunnyDaze 
Date:   2021-09-05 11:09

Everything Matt says fits with my experience as an adult beginner. I started on blue box 1.5 and it took forever for me to realise that sometimes the bad playing days (weeks) were just bad reeds. I needed to learn to keep throwing them away and opening the next one in the box until one worked. I do not like wasting money, and I really struggle with this. I'm getting better at adjusting reeds.

I've played a rovner dark ligature for years very happily. All the other ones I've tried seem to make life needlessly difficult in one way or another. I've never tried a Rovner light.

I have been having clarinet lessons in person, by zoom, and now over email. If anything I think I'm finding email the most helpful, because I don't get performance anxiety in the lesson room. I used to go to lessons and feel under time pressure to perform.

With email lessons, I video all of my practises for the whole week, and watch them back multiple times to see what I'm doing right and wrong. Then I make a small compilation video that is maybe three minutes long, and put it on youtube. Then I email that to my teacher with my questions.

He is really smart and sees things that I would never see in a million years, and sends me really insightful replies.

The thing I do miss about in-person lessons is playing along with the piano. My teacher plays the piano beautifully and with great expression and sensivity, and when I play along with him, I think that starts to rub off on me a bit. That is th thing that I really don't get with having remote lessons.

From that point of view, I do think it would be well worth getting a local teacher, who you could visit in person when things get back to normal-ish.
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