There seems to be some confusion here about the registers on the clarinet. There are 3 registers: 1.) 'chalumeau' (which you are calling 'lower'), which plays the fundamentals of the instrument. The upper part of the chalumeau is what you are calling the 'middle' register, but what we call the 'throat' register, and it only consists of 3 or 4 notes. 2.) 'clarion' (which you are calling 'upper') is actually our middle register, and it is the fundamental register overblown by an interval of a 12th. 3.) 'altissimo' register is the top octave plus, and it consists of several mini-registers that result from overblowing the clarion register and opening different vent keys.
David, it seems like you got your low clarinets mixed up a little. The low E flat instrument is the E flat alto clarinet, and the low Bb one is a bass clarinet, not a contrabass clarinet. There are two more common instruments: the E flat contra-alto and the B flat contrabass clarinet, respectively.
I don't think he was talking about alto clarinet. He mentioned the instrument in question after bass and before contrabass, so he probably means contra alto clarinet in Eb. Also the fact that he said the wood one, not metal supports this, because there are both wood and metal contra altos.
@@coloraturaElise I doubt he would have skipped over alto and bass and gone straight to contra-alto and contrabass. It's a simple misunderstanding and the names can be confusing, I don't blame him for the mistake.
When I was in high school (middle 60's) the glissando (principally used in the "Rapsody in Blue", by Gershwin) was known as a "smear" pronounced with a soft "sh" followed by "mear". My band director wanted to do the "band only" arrangement if I could learn to play it consistently (I was solo chair). He was also my clarinet teacher. Post undergraduate degree, he played in the New York City Air Force Band (studied with Daniel Bonade for four years) and earned his master's and doctorate at Columbia. To give you an idea of the band's attitude (104 students) none of the principles wanted to play it (including me) because it was "beneath us", not classy enough to meet the standard of the works we normally performed (the hey-day of transcriptions). But he prevailed! I did learn how to play it. He thought I spent hours working it up, but it took me about twenty minutes (and then building consistency). He was very impressed! Interestingly, I got to use it a number of times in adult community bands with and without a featured pianist. Just a little side story, my son, who had no say in the matter (I had my own private teaching studio) was lucky enough to have me as his teacher (always so much fun teaching one's own children (NOT). So when he was in 7th grade, he heard me showing one of my high school students how to play it and he really found that motivating! He wanted to learn that! So I showed him the technique. Very soon and relentlessly there after he could play it, and play it, and pla..... He drove his band director and band students crazy! He is now finishing his collegiate Jr year and the glissando is now considered a basic skill as well learning how to rotary breath (which he can do). In his next studio recital he's performing the duet, Freebirds. What's this world coming to.........?
Chris K can’t imagine anyone ever hearing a glissando and thinking anything but how cool it sounds. Let alone finding it “beneath” them. How the times have changed. I learned how to glissando on clarinet in 8th grade...from RUclips. Make sense of that one!
Great lesson. In a local Musical I had to play the Oboe part on Bb Clt (= 5 #s over the break). Piece of cake for Oboe, (3#s in an easy range) but a finger breaking nightmare on Clt. They were important & exposed solos & I confronted the fear of screwing up. We learn so much from Clt, not only about Music, but also about ourselves. Thank you for this presentation.
Great, great stuff ... I very much appreciate both OT and Mr. Newman taking the time to create this series. I do think I liked this one a bit more than the first video (the one on the violin) ... it seemed like there were more useful details for a would-be orchestrator in this video than in the first one.
This is a gorgeous sound. Hope that's who they sampled for the library. (2nd generation clarinet player here.) Great work on this series, every time I check one of these videos out I get stoked to go write something :D
The clarinet's range makes it a remarkably versatile instrument. It can "fill" for so many instruments, and dare I say, the most difficult to play. Clarinet players almost never get to take a break. Its lack of overtones serves as its unique quality and its restriction. I wouldn't consider the oboe warm though.
I really don`t know why you have made the video, because it`s not about sample libraries. But it is very useful to learn something that can never be found on youtube. I hope you make a video about Oboe too.
Nice Info ! I'd just add that you say the "Bass Clarinet looks like a Tenor Sax". What we now know as a Bass Clarinet was if fact developed and refined by Alfred Sax, the inventor of the Saxophone family.
Using the solo from Tchaikovsky's 5th was a good choice to spotlight the low register (6:36), also for the bass clarinet Tchaikovsky's solo from "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
@@delayed3784 great job on all the excerpts. Your flutter tongueing is good too. Mine is not and never was. Where do u play? I'm retired from the US Army Field Band in DC.
the only reason woodwinds don't blend as well as strings or brass is because none of them are too similar, they all have a very unique character (which means as newman said in the video that they make great solo instruments). however beautiful tones can be produced from triple woodwind sections and I believe that that is why people use it and why it works so well. however when i write i prefer to use 3 clarinets and a bass, but i started playing in a wind band so im just used to that
I doubt Alfred Newman was scoring with E♭ Altos... I'm guessing what he meant to/should have said was 1 E♭ Soprano, 2 B♭ Sopranos, 1 B♭ Bass, and either 1 E♭ Contra-Alto or 1 B♭ Contrabass.
French and German key systems are anything but equally used. The French system is immensely more popular. And there is no tangible difference in the sound between the key systems.
There seems to be some confusion here about the registers on the clarinet. There are 3 registers: 1.) 'chalumeau' (which you are calling 'lower'), which plays the fundamentals of the instrument. The upper part of the chalumeau is what you are calling the 'middle' register, but what we call the 'throat' register, and it only consists of 3 or 4 notes. 2.) 'clarion' (which you are calling 'upper') is actually our middle register, and it is the fundamental register overblown by an interval of a 12th. 3.) 'altissimo' register is the top octave plus, and it consists of several mini-registers that result from overblowing the clarion register and opening different vent keys.
“The clarinet is often used to express loneliness”
Oh.
A trick: you can watch series on Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies recently.
@Bryson Miller definitely, I've been using flixzone} for months myself :D
I really appreciate this guys work in movies. His works in the 90’s has that feel-good homely vibes that’s always welcome
i think at about 5:20 you mixed up the A- and the Bb-Clarinet... the a should be the bigger one, right?
David, it seems like you got your low clarinets mixed up a little. The low E flat instrument is the E flat alto clarinet, and the low Bb one is a bass clarinet, not a contrabass clarinet. There are two more common instruments: the E flat contra-alto and the B flat contrabass clarinet, respectively.
I don't think he was talking about alto clarinet. He mentioned the instrument in question after bass and before contrabass, so he probably means contra alto clarinet in Eb. Also the fact that he said the wood one, not metal supports this, because there are both wood and metal contra altos.
@@coloraturaElise I doubt he would have skipped over alto and bass and gone straight to contra-alto and contrabass. It's a simple misunderstanding and the names can be confusing, I don't blame him for the mistake.
When I was in high school (middle 60's) the glissando (principally used in the "Rapsody in Blue", by Gershwin) was known as a "smear" pronounced with a soft "sh" followed by "mear".
My band director wanted to do the "band only" arrangement if I could learn to play it consistently (I was solo chair). He was also my clarinet teacher. Post undergraduate degree, he played in the New York City Air Force Band (studied with Daniel Bonade for four years) and earned his master's and doctorate at Columbia.
To give you an idea of the band's attitude (104 students) none of the principles wanted to play it (including me) because it was "beneath us", not classy enough to meet the standard of the works we normally performed (the hey-day of transcriptions). But he prevailed!
I did learn how to play it. He thought I spent hours working it up, but it took me about twenty minutes (and then building consistency). He was very impressed!
Interestingly, I got to use it a number of times in adult community bands with and without a featured pianist.
Just a little side story, my son, who had no say in the matter (I had my own private teaching studio) was lucky enough to have me as his teacher (always so much fun teaching one's own children (NOT). So when he was in 7th grade, he heard me showing one of my high school students how to play it and he really found that motivating! He wanted to learn that! So I showed him the technique. Very soon and relentlessly there after
he could play it, and play it, and pla.....
He drove his band director and band students crazy!
He is now finishing his collegiate Jr year and the glissando is now considered a basic skill as well learning how to rotary breath (which he can do). In his next studio recital he's performing the duet, Freebirds.
What's this world coming to.........?
Chris K can’t imagine anyone ever hearing a glissando and thinking anything but how cool it sounds. Let alone finding it “beneath” them. How the times have changed. I learned how to glissando on clarinet in 8th grade...from RUclips. Make sense of that one!
Great lesson. In a local Musical I had to play the Oboe part on Bb Clt (= 5 #s over the break). Piece of cake for Oboe, (3#s in an easy range) but a finger breaking nightmare on Clt. They were important & exposed solos & I confronted the fear of screwing up. We learn so much from Clt, not only about Music, but also about ourselves. Thank you for this presentation.
Great overview of these instruments. This series is going to be very helpful.
Great, great stuff ... I very much appreciate both OT and Mr. Newman taking the time to create this series. I do think I liked this one a bit more than the first video (the one on the violin) ... it seemed like there were more useful details for a would-be orchestrator in this video than in the first one.
I've always been a fan of the clarinet and really enjoyed this video
Wow, thanks!!! Looking forward seeing the next parts :)
"A movie a Houdini and the composer escapes me." *Haha* very funny
This is a gorgeous sound. Hope that's who they sampled for the library. (2nd generation clarinet player here.) Great work on this series, every time I check one of these videos out I get stoked to go write something :D
Hope A clarinet can be available soon and I will certainly purchase it
Really nice staccato at 3:22. Sweet.
The clarinet's range makes it a remarkably versatile instrument. It can "fill" for so many instruments, and dare I say, the most difficult to play. Clarinet players almost never get to take a break. Its lack of overtones serves as its unique quality and its restriction. I wouldn't consider the oboe warm though.
I really don`t know why you have made the video, because it`s not about sample libraries. But it is very useful to learn something that can never be found on youtube. I hope you make a video about Oboe too.
Nice Info ! I'd just add that you say the "Bass Clarinet looks like a Tenor Sax". What we now know as a Bass Clarinet was if fact developed and refined by Alfred Sax, the inventor of the Saxophone family.
Using the solo from Tchaikovsky's 5th was a good choice to spotlight the low register (6:36), also for the bass clarinet Tchaikovsky's solo from "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
Beautifully done! Fellow clarinetist here. 👏
Cathy Ogram fellow bass clarinetist here
@@delayed3784 great job on all the excerpts. Your flutter tongueing is good too. Mine is not and never was. Where do u play? I'm retired from the US Army Field Band in DC.
Very good
very much appreciated!!!
Thanks!
Lol movie about Houdini and the composer “escapes” him.
I noticed too, this cheeky son of a bitch
5:20 I think the Bb and A clarinets are backwards
Teldex stage, where EastWest record their orchestral samples.
Edit: or is it Orchestral Tools 🤣
Edit 2: loved the lesson! Thank you!
the only reason woodwinds don't blend as well as strings or brass is because none of them are too similar, they all have a very unique character (which means as newman said in the video that they make great solo instruments). however beautiful tones can be produced from triple woodwind sections and I believe that that is why people use it and why it works so well. however when i write i prefer to use 3 clarinets and a bass, but i started playing in a wind band so im just used to that
10:28 *Childhood flashbacks to the THX song*
Eb Bassclarinet? does he mean Eb Alto clarinet, Eb Contrabass/Contralto Clarinet or Bb Bassclarinnet?
I doubt Alfred Newman was scoring with E♭ Altos... I'm guessing what he meant to/should have said was 1 E♭ Soprano, 2 B♭ Sopranos, 1 B♭ Bass, and either 1 E♭ Contra-Alto or 1 B♭ Contrabass.
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French and German key systems are anything but equally used. The French system is immensely more popular. And there is no tangible difference in the sound between the key systems.
"Sharps are easier to play on the A, and flats are easier to play on the Bb"
too bad bww exp doesn't have the full set of mics *shakes fist*
Asian clarinet players here
Point being?
Idk but reporting for duty :)
I want buy this clarinet so how to purchase ?
Oooo German system
I play Bb clarinet and bass clarinet so...
No one asked :)
6:29 That F is pretty out of tune.