Hello John, I discovered your channel recently and can’t get enough of it. I luv, luv, luv’d your Starbucks joke about 1 minute 12 seconds in. So true!
Thanks John, I first discovered your channel through your Victors Tale performance, it inspired me to pick up the score and challenge myself. I really enjoy your new content, great pacing, informative and well produced. I have struggled with some of the passages in Victors Tale so I will pick it up again and try some of the techniques you outline in this video. Thanks again.
Thanks John! Im so glad to find your channel. In fact i emailed u many years ago when i was looking to own a professional clarinet and was considering the yamaha csg. You were so helpful and inspiring. Thank u so much for all these tips in playing. I hope to learn more from you. It is an honor to learn from you. Cheers :)
Wonderful! I've been practicing Daphnis and Chloe (the last 2 pages) for a couple of weeks, and practicing super slowly, getting comfortable with playing every note correctly in time and with a pleasant sound. I found that most of the time, if I jumped straight from the slow practice to performance tempo, it was surprisingly comfortable because I always knew what came next. Great advice! Eddie Daniels did a video with Backun where he said "Your fingers need to know where to land, and the best way to learn that is by playing little parts very slowly, then playing bigger parts slowly". He also commented that if you can play it slowly, playing it quickly is much easier! I'm curious, do you have any advice for articulation in high altissimo? I particularly struggle with G#-A-Bb in altissimo, they are very unstable even compared to the notes right under and over them.
@@john.kurokawa Repeated, initial seems to be fine, and so are slower articulations, but as I increase speed, the tone gets substantially worse and the pitch sometimes over or undershoots. It's been getting better as I practice, but very slowly.
@@amaypantHmmmm. It's hard to tell what's happening without hearing you, but I would suspect something is changing in your embouchure or voicing as you start to articulate more rapidly. I'm curious- what kind of setup are you playing on (mouthpiece, reed, ligature, etc...)? It's hard to keep consistent poise while doing articulating rapidly- I've been working on it since I was a kid.
@@john.kurokawa That definitely makes sense! You're definitely right about something changing in both my embouchre and my voicing. I recorded some burst tonguing exercises over the last couple of days in the altissimo, and I noticed listening back that there were little facial movements that happened right before either the pitch scooped or cracked. I'm currently practicing that in front of a mirror, trying to keep my tongue motion as minimal as possible as well as my facial movements. I'll update you as it progresses, thank for the tip! Regarding my setup, currently, I play a mouthpiece by James Kanter, M|O Ligature, and either blue box 5 or v12 4.5 reeds. I used to play 4's but they're really inconsistent nowadays, and most of them are honestly harder than the reeds I play now.
@@amaypant Thanks for the update! it would be so much easier to diagnose these problems if we were playing the violin. Everything is external. But with the clarinet.... it can be very difficult. A good Kanter can be wonderful. What blank is made out of? Zinner? Riffault? Or is it one of the newer ones? What facing? Next week's video is going to be on mouthpieces, so I'm just curious. 😁
Any thoughts or feelings on clarinets with additional keywork outside of the standard 6 rings, 17 keys? My B-flat has 7 rings and 20 keys and I find it helps make some passages easier or at least less awkward.
If it helps, great. Personally for me, the more mechanism and keys on a clarinet, the more there is to go wrong, so I stick with the standard keys. I’ve had clarinets with left hand Eb keys, but that’s about it. Even then, I never used it… 🤣 If it works for you though, great. Thanks for watching!
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Hello John, I discovered your channel recently and can’t get enough of it.
I luv, luv, luv’d your Starbucks joke about 1 minute 12 seconds in. So true!
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
Thanks John, I first discovered your channel through your Victors Tale performance, it inspired me to pick up the score and challenge myself. I really enjoy your new content, great pacing, informative and well produced. I have struggled with some of the passages in Victors Tale so I will pick it up again and try some of the techniques you outline in this video. Thanks again.
Wonderful! Best of luck!!! Thanks for watching.
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The pinky going crazy😂
Thanks John! Im so glad to find your channel. In fact i emailed u many years ago when i was looking to own a professional clarinet and was considering the yamaha csg. You were so helpful and inspiring. Thank u so much for all these tips in playing. I hope to learn more from you. It is an honor to learn from you. Cheers :)
Glad to be of help! Thank you for watching.
Mtro usted parece hacer lo difícil fácil 😊
Thank you！very helpful tips
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
Wonderful! I've been practicing Daphnis and Chloe (the last 2 pages) for a couple of weeks, and practicing super slowly, getting comfortable with playing every note correctly in time and with a pleasant sound. I found that most of the time, if I jumped straight from the slow practice to performance tempo, it was surprisingly comfortable because I always knew what came next. Great advice!
Eddie Daniels did a video with Backun where he said "Your fingers need to know where to land, and the best way to learn that is by playing little parts very slowly, then playing bigger parts slowly". He also commented that if you can play it slowly, playing it quickly is much easier!
I'm curious, do you have any advice for articulation in high altissimo? I particularly struggle with G#-A-Bb in altissimo, they are very unstable even compared to the notes right under and over them.
Hmmm. It's difficult to say without seeing you, but are you speaking of multiple, repeated articulations? Or just the initial one?
@@john.kurokawa Repeated, initial seems to be fine, and so are slower articulations, but as I increase speed, the tone gets substantially worse and the pitch sometimes over or undershoots. It's been getting better as I practice, but very slowly.
@@amaypantHmmmm. It's hard to tell what's happening without hearing you, but I would suspect something is changing in your embouchure or voicing as you start to articulate more rapidly. I'm curious- what kind of setup are you playing on (mouthpiece, reed, ligature, etc...)? It's hard to keep consistent poise while doing articulating rapidly- I've been working on it since I was a kid.
@@john.kurokawa That definitely makes sense! You're definitely right about something changing in both my embouchre and my voicing. I recorded some burst tonguing exercises over the last couple of days in the altissimo, and I noticed listening back that there were little facial movements that happened right before either the pitch scooped or cracked. I'm currently practicing that in front of a mirror, trying to keep my tongue motion as minimal as possible as well as my facial movements. I'll update you as it progresses, thank for the tip!
Regarding my setup, currently, I play a mouthpiece by James Kanter, M|O Ligature, and either blue box 5 or v12 4.5 reeds. I used to play 4's but they're really inconsistent nowadays, and most of them are honestly harder than the reeds I play now.
@@amaypant Thanks for the update! it would be so much easier to diagnose these problems if we were playing the violin. Everything is external. But with the clarinet.... it can be very difficult.
A good Kanter can be wonderful. What blank is made out of? Zinner? Riffault? Or is it one of the newer ones? What facing? Next week's video is going to be on mouthpieces, so I'm just curious. 😁
Any thoughts or feelings on clarinets with additional keywork outside of the standard 6 rings, 17 keys? My B-flat has 7 rings and 20 keys and I find it helps make some passages easier or at least less awkward.
If it helps, great. Personally for me, the more mechanism and keys on a clarinet, the more there is to go wrong, so I stick with the standard keys. I’ve had clarinets with left hand Eb keys, but that’s about it. Even then, I never used it… 🤣 If it works for you though, great. Thanks for watching!