After all these years, a friend told me to add just a little "SMILE" at the corners of my mouth & this extra little lift or tension INSTANTLY improved the throat tones on ALL my horns! I've stopped using a sax embochure with the clarinet!!!
Thank you. I’m picking up my clarinet after 25 years and found I dislike my throat tones. A ligature change helped but I was unaware of resonance fingerings. I’m going to get the Clarinet Fingerings book you mentioned.
Yes! Would really like a mouthpiece video. I live two hours away from a music store so I can’t really “try” before I buy. I’m an intermediate player with a Yamaha student clarinet (255, I think) and a Vandoren B45dot mouthpiece. I don’t really know what to look for when buying, I just picked on based on the Vandoren chart.
Great work thank you! As u said ur an expert on mouth pieces could you please advise me? I play a b flat buffet e13 and im searching for a very sharp noisy and edgy mouthpiece which blows a lot of air through it. Thanks!
@@john.kurokawahow difficult is it to project over the orchestra with that mouthpiece ? Sounds rather subdued , and warm up close and with a small ensemble. People like its warmth but when however , playing with 50+ others … it’s a different story
LOL. To be fair, band directors have so much on their plate. It's impossible to be an expert at everything, and I wouldn't be where I am were it not for some amazing band directors I had growing up. Thanks for the sub and for watching!
After all these years, a friend told me to add just a little "SMILE" at the corners of my mouth & this extra little lift or tension INSTANTLY improved the throat tones on ALL my horns! I've stopped using a sax embochure with the clarinet!!!
Thank you. I’m picking up my clarinet after 25 years and found I dislike my throat tones. A ligature change helped but I was unaware of resonance fingerings. I’m going to get the Clarinet Fingerings book you mentioned.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Hi John, just wanted to say congratulations on IMHO superior clarinet content.
Wow, thanks! I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching!
Yes! Would really like a mouthpiece video. I live two hours away from a music store so I can’t really “try” before I buy. I’m an intermediate player with a Yamaha student clarinet (255, I think) and a Vandoren B45dot mouthpiece. I don’t really know what to look for when buying, I just picked on based on the Vandoren chart.
It’s coming! Thanks!
thanks😍
but I could not find the book :(
Can a brother get a bass clarinet vid from you, Sensei?
Hmmmm. The bass clarinet is not my wheelhouse. But… I might possibly do a collab with a bass clarinet specialist…. Thanks for the suggestion!
Great work thank you! As u said ur an expert on mouth pieces could you please advise me? I play a b flat buffet e13 and im searching for a very sharp noisy and edgy mouthpiece which blows a lot of air through it. Thanks!
I wish I knew all this decades ago! Thank you! (I know what my goal will be for my next practice session.) =)
You got this! Thanks for watching!
What should a brother look for in a good mouthpiece? Thanks
That’s coming up in a future video! But… response, freedom, hold, pitch, sound.
Jhon, fantástica boquilla, donde se pueden encontrar
ramonwodkowski.com
@@john.kurokawa gracias 😘
May I ask what mouthpiece is that?
It’s a Wodkowski B1. Thanks for watching!
@@john.kurokawahow difficult is it to project over the orchestra with that mouthpiece ? Sounds rather subdued , and warm up close and with a small ensemble. People like its warmth but when however , playing with 50+ others … it’s a different story
Can a brother find that Yamaha clarinet barrel in the United States ?????
Unfortunately, not that I know of. It was going to be commercially produced at one point I believe, but I don’t know what happened to those plans.
This was an option the whole time?
I demand a refund on my band teachers! Love your content, I'm going to go follow you now.❤
LOL. To be fair, band directors have so much on their plate. It's impossible to be an expert at everything, and I wouldn't be where I am were it not for some amazing band directors I had growing up. Thanks for the sub and for watching!
Thanks a lot for these useful tips. I learned some of these fingerings a long time ago from Walter Boeykens.
nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Boeykens
Impressive! Thanks for watching!