Why wouldn't vibrato be used on the clarinet? I mean every other instrument that can do vibrato would use it at the right time. Of course unless the composer doesn't want vibrato, but if not, why can't you just use it? It's not like vibrato would make an instruments tone worse.
Yes of course.... I could see why vibrato in an orchestration could be inappropriate but I mean if it were up to me to write and compose for clarinet.. I would totally try to implement some type of vibrato into its composure!!!
Yes... I think vibrato sounds really beautiful on Clarinet when used correctly and at the right time and the right technique, not used all the time in pieces that it doesn't "fit in with" I guess... if that makes sense 😕 EDIT: My old director taught us to use vibrato with our tongue by, in theory, saying "ya" while we are playing... I never really experimented or used this because I felt like it may change my tone. I personally use my air to vibrato and this video helped with my technique in order to do so. Thank you!!!
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It depends on the instrumentation and ones roll... No if you are in a concert band or section player. Yes if you are a Concert soloist that is performing music that called for vibrato, 1920’s-40’s... or even Brahms.
Why not earlier music then? Mozart doesn’t right in for strings/other winds to use vibrato in the part, it’s just implied. So how do we know he didn’t want it on clarinet, for example?
Thanks for your interesting video. Check out the great British Player Reginald Kell who used vibrato in the fifties. He was shunned by many and left uk for the USA Following him was the great Jack Brymer and Gervaise de Peyer. Check them out. That style was prevalent with players using the large bore Boosey and Hawkes 1010 clarinet. It's all a matter of taste and tradition! Reginald Kell said that he was influenced by great singers. Thank you God bless Bill. UK
+R de R tremolo is more of a trill, rotating between 2 pitches (mainly when winds tremolo, it is notated as such). On other instruments a tremolo is the same as vibrato (guitar). It all depends on how it's notated, but a tremolo on clarinet is def closer to a trill.
The closest thing to vibrato I've seen clarinetists do is play a note and physically move their instrument up and down really fast (note: this was not when we were actually playing a song, this was more after band rehearsal was over and they were more or less just screwing around). I told my mother, who played oboe in high school, about it, and she was like "Yeah that's not how it works". Which kind of makes sense because it would be impossible to do on anything bigger than a soprano clarinet. Altos, basses, contra altos, and the like are just too big.
And to answer what you said about whether clarinets should use vibrato or not, I say yeah, go for it! Like you said, literally every instrument that can use vibrato is allowed, why can't clarinets?
Why don't you like your vibrato to change the pitch? The pitch variation is the most important component of a good vibrato. Look how strings do the vibrato. They do it by changing the string length. The pitch change is much more important than a volume change that comes rather as a side effect. By the way, I am cellist, and amateur clarinettist :-)
Because changing the pitch is the only way strings can vibrato. In a classical sense, it is better to change the volume (the more practice you get, the better you can control it), because in changing the pitch you are also altering your embouchure. You are also entering the "jazzy" sound territory by changing the pitch...with classical music you don't want this jazzy sound, most conductors prefer a more refined, subtle vibrato coming from the clarinet section.
Yess! Vibrato is such a beautiful technique to use in clarinet. I believe it should be used
Yes, i think vibrato is usefull for all instruments. Especially on clarinet with its beautiful woodwind tonality and stuft
Open to it!
Great video!
yesss! it makes it tasteful when playing jazzy songs
Why wouldn't vibrato be used on the clarinet? I mean every other instrument that can do vibrato would use it at the right time. Of course unless the composer doesn't want vibrato, but if not, why can't you just use it? It's not like vibrato would make an instruments tone worse.
+Bryan Vaz you'd be surprised how many people are anti-clarinet-vibrato.
Yes of course.... I could see why vibrato in an orchestration could be inappropriate but I mean if it were up to me to write and compose for clarinet.. I would totally try to implement some type of vibrato into its composure!!!
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Yes... I think vibrato sounds really beautiful on Clarinet when used correctly and at the right time and the right technique, not used all the time in pieces that it doesn't "fit in with" I guess... if that makes sense 😕
EDIT: My old director taught us to use vibrato with our tongue by, in theory, saying "ya" while we are playing... I never really experimented or used this because I felt like it may change my tone. I personally use my air to vibrato and this video helped with my technique in order to do so. Thank you!!!
+Nicole J awesome! And I think you're right in that it would change the tone. And glad I could help :)
Yes I agree, it's a valid technique. I myself am not good at clarinet vibrato, but I would use it if I was a professional clarinet player.
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I'm a big clarinet fan where can I see you play?
Thanks for finding my channel...you can see me on youtube a few times a month. I also post a lot of my performances on here, so stick around for more: ruclips.net/p/PLDsSOb9x8yKSSpIGZZAo3WRDFqOujnpA7
It depends on the instrumentation and ones roll... No if you are in a concert band or section player. Yes if you are a Concert soloist that is performing music that called for vibrato, 1920’s-40’s... or even Brahms.
Why not earlier music then? Mozart doesn’t right in for strings/other winds to use vibrato in the part, it’s just implied. So how do we know he didn’t want it on clarinet, for example?
The new professor of clarinet at Umass Amherst uses vibrato. To excellent effect.
Thanks for your interesting video. Check out the great British Player Reginald Kell who used vibrato in the fifties. He was shunned by many and left uk for the USA Following him was the great Jack Brymer and Gervaise de Peyer. Check them out. That style was prevalent with players using the large bore Boosey and Hawkes 1010 clarinet. It's all a matter of taste and tradition! Reginald Kell said that he was influenced by great singers. Thank you God bless Bill. UK
I think vibrato gives a voice to the clarinet, especially klezmer music.
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Which part?
Yup. Listen to Jimmy Giuffre!
I like vibrato, but I think fluctuating the volume rather than pitch strictly speaking is called tremelo.
+R de R tremolo is more of a trill, rotating between 2 pitches (mainly when winds tremolo, it is notated as such). On other instruments a tremolo is the same as vibrato (guitar). It all depends on how it's notated, but a tremolo on clarinet is def closer to a trill.
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The closest thing to vibrato I've seen clarinetists do is play a note and physically move their instrument up and down really fast (note: this was not when we were actually playing a song, this was more after band rehearsal was over and they were more or less just screwing around). I told my mother, who played oboe in high school, about it, and she was like "Yeah that's not how it works". Which kind of makes sense because it would be impossible to do on anything bigger than a soprano clarinet. Altos, basses, contra altos, and the like are just too big.
And to answer what you said about whether clarinets should use vibrato or not, I say yeah, go for it! Like you said, literally every instrument that can use vibrato is allowed, why can't clarinets?
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Why don't you like your vibrato to change the pitch? The pitch variation is the most important component of a good vibrato.
Look how strings do the vibrato. They do it by changing the string length. The pitch change is much more important than a volume change that comes rather as a side effect. By the way, I am cellist, and amateur clarinettist :-)
Because changing the pitch is the only way strings can vibrato. In a classical sense, it is better to change the volume (the more practice you get, the better you can control it), because in changing the pitch you are also altering your embouchure. You are also entering the "jazzy" sound territory by changing the pitch...with classical music you don't want this jazzy sound, most conductors prefer a more refined, subtle vibrato coming from the clarinet section.
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YES vibrato on clarinet after all it was good enough for Sidney Bechet !)
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+Cherrylover 134 same
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