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Marching Band Clarinet Tips?

Author: MeGustaLaClarinet
Date: 2014-05-16 20:15

This up-coming marching band season will be my last *sniffle* :'(
But my band director has nominated me and a person one year my junior for the section leader position. I have to write a one-page paper about why i would be a good leader, and how me being leader would support the band.

Writing essays are my forte (lol see what i did there?) and i have planned what i am going to write in it, however i want to add tips and tricks that i could use to help the clarinet section in marching band.

Pretty much, i am looking for tips and tricks to help the clarinet section. We will have 13 members this year (in a band of 56) and last year (with only nine clarinets and 56 members in the band proper) we could only be heard in our features, and barely in the opener and closer. You couldn't hear us at all during the drum break

Anywho, i know the think where you stuff the bell of your clarinet with your swab and try to play, i have done that before (and i works wonders)

I also know to keep a dollar bill in your case for competitions and practices when it rains, because the cotton in the dollar soaks up the water in your pads to dry it out and helps them keep longer.

Thank you, all and any help would be greatly appreciated.
...Scratch that... Reverse it...

P.S. The current high school clarinet section (only four in the high school band) can play better, louder, and more in tune than our trumpet section...

I have been playing clarinet for 6.5 years.
I play my LJ Hutchen Clarinet in marching band rehearsals. I play my Pan-American (1941) clarient in concert band, and marching band competitions, just as my great uncle, gramma, and mom have on this clarinet.

Post Edited (2014-05-16 20:26)

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