I watched dozens of beginner clips and could only make squeaks. Before the video was over, I was wailing. I'm 75 with COPD and practice makes my oxygen level soar to 99%. Thanks a ton.
I recently switched from drums to clarinet in band and this will help a lot! I've never played clarinet and I wanna show my director that I know what I'm doing and that I'll be good at playing it. Thank you for this!
I'm 61 and just ordered /bought a used instrument on ebay and some reeds from Amazon, 2.5 royals. I'm doing my research b4 the clarinet gets hear and this helps a lot. Trying to keep the old brain thinking so I'm learn the clarinet. It also helps fulfill a dream. I loved Benny Goodman as a kid but my parents didn't understand English well ( just from the Philippines) and bought me a coronet instead. I tried it but I didn't continue because there were just so many good players that i got shy. Still shy, but I don't feel the pressure and it's the instrument that I originally wanted to learn on from the beginning.🤣 Found another person i like on the clarinet, Eddie Daniels. I'll be happy if I can play Happy birthday for my grandnieces. Again thank you for taking the time to teach us. Very succinct and clear directions.✌️😊
Excellent excellent video. I play trumpet, and I'm teaching my daughter how tead music. She is learning the clarinet, and although I've played with clarinet players my whole career, I never paid any attention to how they play their instrument. Thank you for such a thorough and simple explanation. I know this help!
Oh my god. Dude, I’m in 6th grade and I’m 11. I just joined beginner band in my school, and sixth grade’s been tough. Especially because of band. My sound is too flat, according to my director. So I took it a step back and went to mouthpiece and barrel, so i can get a sharper sound. And man, I watched so many RUclips tutorials and nothing worked and I was literally making an ‘F’ sound on mouthpiece and barrel. But after I watched your video and awesome demonstrations of how the mouth should be, I can make a perfect F sharp! Thank you so, so SO much. I can finally show my band director what I’m capable of thanks to you.
I have an old metal clarinet & I had difficulty producing the sound, now know d proper way to get that mouthpiece to my teeth & lower lips & blow properly. Very helpful to a trying hard learning sr citizen like me. Thanks!
Thanks I’m a beginner just started 5th grade band I sounded terrible In front of my director and I hope next Monday I’ll show them what I can actually do because of you 😃
Great. My 9 year old son has just arrived home with a clarinet and I had no idea how to set up this Reed. He has dispraxia so this could get interesting 😂
hi teacher! your video helped me learn English vocabulary about clarinet. I have played clarinet since I was 11... I love this instrument and everything that music can bring to us. Thank you very much for your lesson
You are so underrated :(. I wish you got more recognition, this helped me with my music class a lot, I am sure I will get A on this one! Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Hite mouthpieces are good and beginners should start with number 2 size reeds until they get the hang of getting a good solid tone. Then increase the size as you get better (2.5, 3, 3.5 etc)
It’s was so confusing, the embochure because I was previously a flute player and it feels weird to have your mouth like that… Thanks for helping 😊 4:23 literally me when I started without any guidance…
Thank you! After assembling and disassembling the instrument and some strange sound between them, this video did save me. I can practise blowing without assembling! I'm recording my progress in my channel.
Thank you so much!!! I reviewed several tutorials with skilled players who somehow did not understant that they need to cover the details of exactly how to place your top teeth and put your lip over your bottom teeth! I got a 1929 Conn "rubber" clarinet from a friend. I was going to just keep it on my desk at work, but it is was so cool I just had to learn to play it. I can now play a song! ("First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack).
Sorry after doing all that, how should you press the reed, raise the teeth together with the lip or press the reed horizontally or vertically, how should the lip touch the reed, that's the whole problem
I do make a sound but it sounds like a trumpet not like a clarinet and it only works when I put too much mouth to the mouthpiece 😢 and also my clarinet came with two barrels one is larger than the other one, I put the larger one maybe that’s the problem? what should I do? Help 😭
check the reed to make sure it's moist on both sides...make sure you don't choke off the reed when you put the mouthpiece in your mouth. Tighten the corners of your mouth and let the reed vibrate inside your mouth
Make sure you are using proper fingerings for the note you are trying to play. Best to start on the open G where you don’t actually put any fingers down.
I played clairanet in school and didn't play for many years until now I am 69 now I can't make any sound with just the mouth piece and I've forgotten alot of the fingering
It's never too late to pick it up again~. You will have to retrain your mouth again to get used to tightening the corners to play but like before it all comes with practice~! good luck!
Hello again!! I accidentally dropped my clarinet.... And the reed is broken, which is okay to me because I can always buy another. But the mouthpiece is also slightly bent, and worse is that I'm borrowing school's instrument!!! I tried blowing but it can't make any sound except for air. What should I do!! 😭
Oh no! Well it happens so I would just let your music teacher know and see if they can replace the mouthpiece for you. If it doesn’t affect the sound significantly they might just leave it until the end of the year.
Check your reed to make sure it’s wet on the backside, check the mouthpiece to make sure it’s not chipped or broken. Make sure the reed and mouthpiece are flush with each other.
hello when i blow into mouthpiece after awhile inside the holl is getting wet and the sound changes i cant get the correct sound what shall ido to not get wet?
try to keep your mouth dry so you aren't spitting too much into the mouthpiece...only way to clear the spit inside is to swab it out with a cleaning swab for the clarinet or suck the spit back up from the mouthpiece (I know it sounds gross but it is effective to get rid of the "wet sound") Also make sure your reed is not "dripping" wet...it should be soaked but not dripping wet with saliva
@@mechanicalcookie5625 say "eeeee" and then "ooooo" while holding your cheek corners in the "eee" position. I dont know much so I can be wrong but my understanding is you dont blow with your cheeks with this instrument but you how with your diaphragm.
@@mechanicalcookie5625 you have muscules in your face under your skin so yes it is going to hurt. But if you do it for an hour everyday for 5 days it won't hurt because you are strengthening those muscles
@@MusicTeacherWalker Okay! I was able to blow the clarinet for a few times today. But somehow i can't blow air into the clarinet anymore, my mouth feels breathless and dry. Is it normal for the back of my bottom lip to hurt or am I not supposed to put pressure in covering my bottom teeth?
@@itsnottoolatetostart nothing should “hurt”…the corners of your mouth should feel tired from tightening and sealing the mouth on the mouthpiece. But more often than not problems lie with how we set the reed on the mouthpiece and whether the ligature (the silver piece with the screws) is far enough down to allow proper vibration from the reed when you blow.
@@rozhyaqoob198 hmm check your mouth position then and make sure you put enough mouthpiece in your mouth and don't pinch the reed...allow it to vibrate
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I watched dozens of beginner clips and could only make squeaks. Before the video was over, I was wailing. I'm 75 with COPD and practice makes my oxygen level soar to 99%. Thanks a ton.
I recently switched from drums to clarinet in band and this will help a lot! I've never played clarinet and I wanna show my director that I know what I'm doing and that I'll be good at playing it. Thank you for this!
Sameeeee
I just quit drums and started clarinet today
same
BRO SAME LOL
i didnt get drums in the band so i had to play clariniet
I could not make a sound on it when I first tried and finally I made a noise.🎉
Thanks for the help!
Glad it helped!
I'm 61 and just ordered /bought a used instrument on ebay and some reeds from Amazon, 2.5 royals.
I'm doing my research b4 the clarinet gets hear and this helps a lot.
Trying to keep the old brain thinking so I'm learn the clarinet. It also helps fulfill a dream.
I loved Benny Goodman as a kid but my parents didn't understand English well ( just from the Philippines) and bought me a coronet instead. I tried it but I didn't continue because there were just so many good players that i got shy.
Still shy, but I don't feel the pressure and it's the instrument that I originally wanted to learn on from the beginning.🤣
Found another person i like on the clarinet, Eddie Daniels.
I'll be happy if I can play Happy birthday for my grandnieces.
Again thank you for taking the time to teach us. Very succinct and clear directions.✌️😊
Glad you finally get to play the instrument you wanted to learn! It's never too late! Hope the video helps you get started!
@@MusicTeacherWalker thank you. I'm looking up some free pdf books on how to play and read music.
Got to love the internet.🤣
Excellent excellent video. I play trumpet, and I'm teaching my daughter how tead music. She is learning the clarinet, and although I've played with clarinet players my whole career, I never paid any attention to how they play their instrument. Thank you for such a thorough and simple explanation. I know this help!
Glad it was helpful!
Perfect start to my clarinet journey. Thank you.
Thanks! Pandemic’s low enough in New England for my son, Sam, to get his instrument in 6th grade and you taught him how to get a sound out of it!
So glad it helped him!
I could show him but had no idea how to explain it. Yay teachers. 👍
im in 6th grade rn and i literally love the clarinet and ive only had it a day
Thank you so much, this is so helpful!!!! I barely started playing clarinet yesterday
glad it helped! practice makes perfect!
Oh my god. Dude, I’m in 6th grade and I’m 11. I just joined beginner band in my school, and sixth grade’s been tough. Especially because of band. My sound is too flat, according to my director. So I took it a step back and went to mouthpiece and barrel, so i can get a sharper sound. And man, I watched so many RUclips tutorials and nothing worked and I was literally making an ‘F’ sound on mouthpiece and barrel. But after I watched your video and awesome demonstrations of how the mouth should be, I can make a perfect F sharp! Thank you so, so SO much. I can finally show my band director what I’m capable of thanks to you.
I'm so glad it helped you! Good luck this year in beginning band!
Oh, My, this helps so much. What a great explanation and demonstration!
I have an old metal clarinet & I had difficulty producing the sound, now know d proper way to get that mouthpiece to my teeth & lower lips & blow properly. Very helpful to a trying hard learning sr citizen like me. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video, I am a trumpet player in symphonic band and going to be playing clarinet for concert and this helped me out a lot
Thank you this was very helpful to learning how to blow in the mouthpiece
Thank you so much!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭
Glad I found this as this was the only video I watched that actually helped me to produce a nice warm tone.
Glad it helped!
Thanks I’m a beginner just started 5th grade band I sounded terrible In front of my director and I hope next Monday I’ll show them what I can actually do because of you 😃
I’m glad it’s helping you!
same here
Great. My 9 year old son has just arrived home with a clarinet and I had no idea how to set up this Reed. He has dispraxia so this could get interesting 😂
hi teacher! your video helped me learn English vocabulary about clarinet. I have played clarinet since I was 11... I love this instrument and everything that music can bring to us. Thank you very much for your lesson
You're welcome! I'm glad it has helped!
You are so underrated :(. I wish you got more recognition, this helped me with my music class a lot, I am sure I will get A on this one! Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Very nice and good. 😊
Super helpful for a first time Clarinet player. Thanks so much!
This helped so much!! None of the other videos said how far to have it. Thank you so much:)
Thank you! It's my first time playing a reed instrument. This helped a lot.
I’m joining band this year and this was sooo helpfulll!! Thanksss
I'm glad it helped!
Omg, thank you so much! At the beginning of the video I had no idea how to make a sound and now I can at lest make some sort of sound
That's great to hear! Remember, practice makes perfect!
THANK YOU!! i just now am joining clarinet and i struggle to get a sound out of it, so im trying to learn. this really helps! :)
Happy to help!
Thx this really helped a lot I just started 5th grade band!🥰🌸
Wow this actually worked so well, you earned yourself a sub
This was very helpful! Was having a lot of problems just doing this seemingly simple thing! Great video quality showing the real detail!
thank you for the quick tutorial!
Best teacher ever, thanks so much!!!
This was SO helpful. None of the other videos did anything. THANK YOU!!!
Glad it helped!
Tysm! this helped me a lot! 🤩
you are better than the beginner sax channels
Cutest teacher ever😊
thanks for the guidance
Mouthpiece brand , number for beginners?? Thanks for video..and sharing knowledge..
Hite mouthpieces are good and beginners should start with number 2 size reeds until they get the hang of getting a good solid tone. Then increase the size as you get better (2.5, 3, 3.5 etc)
@@MusicTeacherWalker Yamaha 4c??
@@parandungidts2616 that should work
It’s was so confusing, the embochure because I was previously a flute player and it feels weird to have your mouth like that… Thanks for helping 😊
4:23 literally me when I started without any guidance…
I still can't do it
Me too
I was also flute player
Thank you! After assembling and disassembling the instrument and some strange sound between them, this video did save me. I can practise blowing without assembling! I'm recording my progress in my channel.
Thank you for making this video! I just started playing and this has helped me so much in the beginning!
Glad I could help!
Thanks for the lesson because I was falling behind in my class because they could play the clarinet sound but I couldn’t so this was extremely helpful
Glad it helped you!
Thank you so much!!! I reviewed several tutorials with skilled players who somehow did not understant that they need to cover the details of exactly how to place your top teeth and put your lip over your bottom teeth! I got a 1929 Conn "rubber" clarinet from a friend. I was going to just keep it on my desk at work, but it is was so cool I just had to learn to play it. I can now play a song! ("First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack).
hahahahahah! I thought something was wrong with my mouthpiece. I had the ligature AND the mouth piece upside down. thank you!
Thankyou so much mam it’s help a lot and also you are very cute mam 🤭 I can’t help just seeing you hour’s
Thank you because I know how to assemble and stuff, but I can NOT do blow the mouth piece so thank you
thank you so much you dont even know how much you helped
can i soak the reed in a glass of water?
Nope! Water doesn’t work the same way saliva does on the reeds. Needs saliva. You’ll get used to it as you play 😅
I love the way u teach 🎉
I got to go to band on this Monday and I’m in fourth grade. I got teaching from my brother but I need a bit more teaching so I went to this video
hope it helped!
Yours is the video i finally understood it on. THANKYOU
You should review the LIBRE clarinet ligature sold on ebay
Can I keep a vial of fresh water in my case? Wood soaked in spit doesn't sound thrilling to me.
sadly no..saliva works best..water isn't enough to keep the correct amount of moisture on the reed against the mouthpiece
Sorry after doing all that, how should you press the reed, raise the teeth together with the lip or press the reed horizontally or vertically, how should the lip touch the reed, that's the whole problem
Thankyou for this I will try they it
I do make a sound but it sounds like a trumpet not like a clarinet and it only works when I put too much mouth to the mouthpiece 😢 and also my clarinet came with two barrels one is larger than the other one, I put the larger one maybe that’s the problem? what should I do? Help 😭
When I blow, no sound comes out I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
check the reed to make sure it's moist on both sides...make sure you don't choke off the reed when you put the mouthpiece in your mouth. Tighten the corners of your mouth and let the reed vibrate inside your mouth
This was really helpful, thank you
Gracias!
I can make a note on the mouth peice but when its fully assembled ot squeaks
Make sure you are using proper fingerings for the note you are trying to play. Best to start on the open G where you don’t actually put any fingers down.
How do i do the mouth corner thing?
good teacher,,,, reed seems longer than mouthpiece... is that right,,,
if you watch my other video on how to place the reed onto the mouthpiece you can see how big the reed should be compared to the mouthpiece
I played clairanet in school and didn't play for many years until now I am 69 now I can't make any sound with just the mouth piece and I've forgotten alot of the fingering
It's never too late to pick it up again~. You will have to retrain your mouth again to get used to tightening the corners to play but like before it all comes with practice~! good luck!
Very helpful video
Tysm !
Thank you so much this was really helpful! I Just started today and after watching this I can make a sound :)
Thank you this helped me so much!
You are the best. Thanks 👍
you're welcome!
ive been playing my sax for 5 years now and i COULD NOT figure out how to hold my mouth🥲
Hello again!!
I accidentally dropped my clarinet.... And the reed is broken, which is okay to me because I can always buy another. But the mouthpiece is also slightly bent, and worse is that I'm borrowing school's instrument!!! I tried blowing but it can't make any sound except for air. What should I do!! 😭
Oh no! Well it happens so I would just let your music teacher know and see if they can replace the mouthpiece for you. If it doesn’t affect the sound significantly they might just leave it until the end of the year.
When i play it sounds very high. When I play a G it is a C6! please help!!
Same here, did you solve it a year later?
Mine will not make any noise what do I do?
Check your reed to make sure it’s wet on the backside, check the mouthpiece to make sure it’s not chipped or broken. Make sure the reed and mouthpiece are flush with each other.
hello when i blow into mouthpiece after awhile inside the holl is getting wet and the sound changes i cant get the correct sound what shall ido to not get wet?
try to keep your mouth dry so you aren't spitting too much into the mouthpiece...only way to clear the spit inside is to swab it out with a cleaning swab for the clarinet or suck the spit back up from the mouthpiece (I know it sounds gross but it is effective to get rid of the "wet sound")
Also make sure your reed is not "dripping" wet...it should be soaked but not dripping wet with saliva
@@MusicTeacherWalker thank you dear🙏 ,i m trying to swab it out every time when i finish ,hope it solve my problem.
Can u teach me
Ghorl, u deserve a subscribe and a like!
i still cant its my corners of my mouth they aint staying
Am I doing it correct if my cheek starts to hurt ?
No yoindont use your cheeks
But when I close my cheeks or however she is doing it they start to hurt after awhile
@@mechanicalcookie5625 say "eeeee" and then "ooooo" while holding your cheek corners in the "eee" position. I dont know much so I can be wrong but my understanding is you dont blow with your cheeks with this instrument but you how with your diaphragm.
@@mechanicalcookie5625 you have muscules in your face under your skin so yes it is going to hurt. But if you do it for an hour everyday for 5 days it won't hurt because you are strengthening those muscles
Oh the thing is my front teeth aren't even, will that work?
as long as you have your 2 front teeth it should work~
@@MusicTeacherWalker Okay! I was able to blow the clarinet for a few times today. But somehow i can't blow air into the clarinet anymore, my mouth feels breathless and dry. Is it normal for the back of my bottom lip to hurt or am I not supposed to put pressure in covering my bottom teeth?
@@itsnottoolatetostart nothing should “hurt”…the corners of your mouth should feel tired from tightening and sealing the mouth on the mouthpiece. But more often than not problems lie with how we set the reed on the mouthpiece and whether the ligature (the silver piece with the screws) is far enough down to allow proper vibration from the reed when you blow.
HELP when I put the mouthpiece on the clarinet I get the same exact high pitched horrible sound... and i chcked theres no leaks on the clarinet
Check for:
-Too much mouthpiece in your mouth
-Weak embouchure (corners of mouth isn’t firm/tight)
-Puffy cheeks (comes from weak embouchure)
Thanks a lot
this helped me sm
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I realise that this is an older video, I am 60, just had a clarinet renovated...I absolutely cannot get a sound out of the clarinet top 😭😭😭😭
Have you tried getting a sound out on just your mouthpiece?
you are awesome
Thank u so much I thought it was broken I didn’t know how to make sound
Thank you ...
Thank you so much. Now I can annoy the 🐕.
Thank you
w videó annácska
Thank you!!!
I actually got to make a sound thanks
glad it helped~
I think I got but its way to loud and now my jaws hurt
Thank u madem
Merci 👍☺️🇨🇵
tysm in 5th grade doing band is pressuring =,
So i al actually missing my twi front teeth, guess i can play clairitne
@@ishce Oh
nice im on my way to jingle bells
good job!
I do exactly like how you said but it doesn't make any sounds 🙃
is your reed wet and placed correctly on the mouthpiece? reed is not chipped or cracked ?
@@MusicTeacherWalker is wet and placed correct . Nah it's new it just delivered now
@@rozhyaqoob198 hmm check your mouth position then and make sure you put enough mouthpiece in your mouth and don't pinch the reed...allow it to vibrate
@@MusicTeacherWalker okay
That's why mine wasn't making sound tysm
I have been playing wrong for four years
Cute.. 😃
beautiful teeth
I don't even know to play, clarinet, what I'm doing here????
Damm I’m getting light headed
Do you understand how to do this? Because if you do please tell me cause I still don’t understand
Me toooo I’m grade 6 and I don’t know how to make a sound
At least your sound dosent sound like a clown horn 😂