Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2016-04-23 05:51
The Eb player usually sits in the first row inside the 1st section players. Since you'll be doubling them a lot of the time, it lets you match them. It also puts you next to the piccolo player(s).
The Eb player is NOT the leader of the clarinet section. That's the job of the 1st chair 1st Bb player. Your job is to add a little sparkle to the clarinet section sound. You should never be heard over the section unless a passage is explicitly marked as a solo.
An old adage applies double to the Eb: if you can hear yourself at pp, you're playing too loud. If you can't hear everyone else at ff, you're playing too loud.
Ken Shaw
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