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Re: Is this a good mouthpiece... (Where am I at???)

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-11-29 16:49

The only thing the clarinet can really limit you to is tone and tuning. The techinque is something all your own and something you can work on with any clarinet. So even if you practice for hours and hours on your plastic selmer, while you may hear the occasional out of tune notes, your fingering and tonguing technique will undoubtedly still get better (even if it's just a selmer plastic clarinet). Then, when you can afford to upgrade, it will all fall into place and you will just sound THAT much better.

As for the mouthpiece, I don't see why it wouldn't be a good mouthpiece. Obviously it's hard to tell since intonation problems at this point could either be the mouthpiece, or the clarinet, or a combination of both. But if you feel comfortable playing it, that's all that should matter in order to get better. And chances are that as you get better, you'll sort of "grow into" the mouthpiece and be able to use it much more effectively.

BTW, congrats on your accomplishments so far. I've been playing for about twelve years and know about three or four scales by heart. I can read scales off a paper well, but if you were to just ask me to play an Ab scale, I'd simply stand there with a dumb look on my face. I wish I had been told to learn scales/arpeggios earlier instead of just having pieces of music plopped in front of me and being told, "Learn this by Christmas". [frown]