I'm happy it's helping! Please be patient and bite as little as possible while still keeping fast air and a good sound. It's more about your mouth shape and air speed than lip and jaw pressure. Good luck!
This may be obvious however she playing with double lip, I should be really be forcing the corners in right? I just want to make sure I fully understand something before I try it because I don’t want create or have the mindset of a bad habit, and in general I’m a newer clarinet player, I’ve only been playing for five years and I’m regretfully just now realizing the importance of embouchure so I’m trying really hard to fix my bad habits however I’m just trying to be careful to not start a new one.
I would experiment with being as relaxed as possible with your embouchure while playing double lip. Can you keep the air speed and voicing right for you while keeping your lips more relaxed? I use double lip to help me relax, although that may not be right for everyone.
@@christopherbushclarinet I’ve tried the respective technique, and I’m happy to report that I did find some success with it. However, what also ended up solving a lot of confusion for me was simply paying close attention to many great players embouchure and I noticed a few key things: the front teeth is actually placed quite high on the mouthpiece, close to the tip, which I already knew however what I didn’t realize was the bottom lip was resting significantly lower than where I placed my bottom lip so I did a little experiment: I used my pointer finger as a reed rest instead of my bottom lip and found where does the reed start to close off and when does it not and when I determined the “sweet spot”, it ended up being quite close to where the professional players placed their bottom lip. When I made this realization, it completely changed my sound. My bottom lip must have been placed too high where the reed can be closed off very easily with even the slightest pressure and my sound became both more open and rounder, and I could also hear more low overtones when playing register slurs, which I humorously at first confused it with being out of tune haha.
Hello, it makes 4 months that i cannot play more than 3h weekly because of tooth pain, before that I was doing like 30h hours +, I feel like eating a glass Any advice ?
Sorry for the delayed response! It sounds like you may be biting or that you may have dental issues (or both). Please talk to your dentist. Also, I use Invisalign on my bottom teeth to help dissipate the pressure. Maybe that could be an option for you. If you are biting too much, think about reed and/or mouthpiece changes. There are so many variables...It might be easier to diagnose in a lesson, if you'd like to try that.
@@christopherbushclarinet Just not true. If you only use double lip as a guide you never develop that top lip the way you have the bottom lip. True double lip players often have superior endurance in my experience. It's still the method of choice in much of France. If you are truly comfortable with both you can switch back and forth and preserve your embouchure strength well past the point that your brain will be too tired to continue.
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Yeah! Good explanation!👏🏼👍🏼😻
Thank you! Let me know if it's helpful, please.
Super helpful, thank you!
i like this excercise.the sound becomes better.
Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know.
Do you have other videos for clarinet ?
@@stevenroosblad9813 Yes! Check out my channel. New ones are coming soon, too.
I can feel this working already, but the only problem is I have braces and actually doing double lip hurts so just be mindful of that
I'm happy it's helping! Please be patient and bite as little as possible while still keeping fast air and a good sound. It's more about your mouth shape and air speed than lip and jaw pressure. Good luck!
This sounds like an interesting exercise. Will try it tomorrow. Thanks for the video.
I hope that it was useful!
@@christopherbushclarinet very useful. Thanks. Hearing improvements.
Very good explination
Thank you!
How to hit that top C would be another video entirely. I have done it once and not sure how I did. Think I was just in the mood.
Keep at it!
This may be obvious however she playing with double lip, I should be really be forcing the corners in right? I just want to make sure I fully understand something before I try it because I don’t want create or have the mindset of a bad habit, and in general I’m a newer clarinet player, I’ve only been playing for five years and I’m regretfully just now realizing the importance of embouchure so I’m trying really hard to fix my bad habits however I’m just trying to be careful to not start a new one.
I would experiment with being as relaxed as possible with your embouchure while playing double lip. Can you keep the air speed and voicing right for you while keeping your lips more relaxed? I use double lip to help me relax, although that may not be right for everyone.
@@christopherbushclarinet I’ve tried the respective technique, and I’m happy to report that I did find some success with it. However, what also ended up solving a lot of confusion for me was simply paying close attention to many great players embouchure and I noticed a few key things: the front teeth is actually placed quite high on the mouthpiece, close to the tip, which I already knew however what I didn’t realize was the bottom lip was resting significantly lower than where I placed my bottom lip so I did a little experiment: I used my pointer finger as a reed rest instead of my bottom lip and found where does the reed start to close off and when does it not and when I determined the “sweet spot”, it ended up being quite close to where the professional players placed their bottom lip. When I made this realization, it completely changed my sound. My bottom lip must have been placed too high where the reed can be closed off very easily with even the slightest pressure and my sound became both more open and rounder, and I could also hear more low overtones when playing register slurs, which I humorously at first confused it with being out of tune haha.
@oscartamez3711 Great! I love to hear that you are experimenting to find what works for you in particular. Keep it up!
Hello, it makes 4 months that i cannot play more than 3h weekly because of tooth pain, before that I was doing like 30h hours +, I feel like eating a glass
Any advice ?
Sorry for the delayed response! It sounds like you may be biting or that you may have dental issues (or both). Please talk to your dentist. Also, I use Invisalign on my bottom teeth to help dissipate the pressure. Maybe that could be an option for you. If you are biting too much, think about reed and/or mouthpiece changes. There are so many variables...It might be easier to diagnose in a lesson, if you'd like to try that.
if double lip is the solution...why switch to single?
I think of it more as a guide. Double lip can be very strenuous to play for very long, which is one reason so few professionals use it exclusively.
@@christopherbushclarinet Just not true. If you only use double lip as a guide you never develop that top lip the way you have the bottom lip. True double lip players often have superior endurance in my experience. It's still the method of choice in much of France. If you are truly comfortable with both you can switch back and forth and preserve your embouchure strength well past the point that your brain will be too tired to continue.
What tuner is that?
Tunable
Make your fingers visible
Well, just play DOUBLE LIP all the time … problem solved.
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