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RE: I'm all over the place!

Author: ron b  Date:   2002-02-19 18:50 Hi, Jonny C WELCOME ABOARD! You'll find many here who also have a foot in both worlds :] If I may sorta paraphrase GBK, clarinet and sax embouchures are not interchangeable. I agree. For whatever it's worth, I'd like to offer from personal experience the recommendation that you at this point NOT play in the upper register. Nothing above C above staff, max, until you've established a 'clarinet embouchure'. Give yourself a month or two. Clarinets don't often go much beyond that range anyway. Once you establish a Good 'basic embouchure'... don't change it Not much, anyway. Saxophones are way way way more flexible in that respect. What may seem like a moderate amount of embouchure change to a saxophonist is EX-treme(!) for a clarinet player. A little goes a very long way in clarinetland. It's 'the nature of the beast'. You'll probably do best with a mouthpiece setup as near as possible to your sax setup -- reed strength, mpc lay, ligature position etc. Also, keep reminding yourself to keep the clarinet at more of a 45-degree angle, down, rather than up-forward like a sax. You should have no trouble with breath control, endurance or fingering. Those are all pretty much the same. Just remember to cover the open holes It just takes practice time to get the feel of it.

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