I learned clarinet in 2 weeks for this...

[@becauseisaac]

If any one has any ideas on why my clarinet plays so flat (And any fixes) Please help 😅

[@kurtwilliewalleye]

You're probably playing flat because you haven't yet developed your embouchure. It's just gonna take a lot of practice. Good luck!

[@gadxxxx]

@@kurtwilliewalleye I played clarinet for many years in an amateur symphony orchestra. Practice practice practice is the only way.

[@davidsnead7728]

@@kurtwilliewalleye Wait... The intonation of the notes actually changes based on where you put your mouth? That sounds WAY harder than I thought.

[@becauseisaac]

@@davidsnead7728 That's what I'm struggling with. The tighter your mouth, the higher the pitch.

[@thenamelessone8192]

I would guess embouchure, I would download a tuner app, I use tonal energy. JUST. SQUEEZE. TIGHTER. IT GETS BETTER. Idk why that got so aggressive. But you get used to it.

[@EchannelYT]

Fun fact when you first got it the reason why it was hard to put together is because you didn’t put cork grease on it :D

[@CopelandClarinet]

As a clarinetist of 5 years (and being a student at a music conservatory), this was very entertaining to watch 😂. Jokes aside, your progress was amazing! I hope u keep playing our wonderful instrument :).

[@becauseisaac]

Thanks for your comment! I plan on it.

[@giottogiovanni]

This was a fun series, reminds me of when I first learned saxophone in 6th Grade! I'm a Musical Pit Musician now, so it would be super cool to play yours and your sister's musical some day!

[@cheddycheddarson]

As in terms of posture, make sure you tilt your head straight up and not facing towards the ground. Other than that, absolutely phenomenal job.😊

[@becauseisaac]

Thanks! I’ll try that.

[@margamingshorts6471]

For new clarinets you need cork grease and lots of it like lots

[@becauseisaac]

Yep! Figured that out real soon.

[@margamingshorts6471]

@@becauseisaac lol

[@Its.Nikki.B]

I went from the piano to bagpipe to the trumpet then to the baritone and now I'm practicing the clarinet. I'm playing all of them but I'm slowly learning the clarinet

[@Giaella10]

This is very cool to watch, ive veen playing the clarinet for 8 years and i remember bringing my rental home on the bus in elementary excited to show my mom i learned three notes lmao

[@ShauryaTaranekar]

The Eb he played scares me...

[@LeonardAMisner]

I asked around with local musicians if they would prefer an analog or digital studio and back at that time in the '90s. The majority of musicians still wanted analog. So I had a tascam 16 track tape deck. I bought a 16 channel Mackie mixer for my inputs to each track for mixing on the tape deck and took the 16 outputs through a separate 16 channel mixer. So I don't have to screw around with levels after I record something when I want to hear it back and it's 16 channel board going in and then to listen to it, of course the tascam has 16 inputs for their 16 tracks in and then 16 tracks out. High five sets of studio monitors so I could tell you if the music is going to sound good on a cheap car stereo up to a house PA and everything in between. I had a bunch of guitars honey Yamaha upright studio grand, I completely soundproofed with thermal batting button and tuck denim four bedrooms and had thermal pain at angles appropriate to minimize double propagation to keep a bleed over absolutely out of the equation. So why not just get a sampling keyboard, dump some clarinet on it, play that piece and be done with it. No more squeaks and flats

[@Elmieeuw]

For that first lick you were trying to play, you can use an alternate fingering for C with your left pinky and then go to Eb so you don’t have to try to slide your right pinky from C to Eb

[@dshorty57]

I’m trying to remember what I played in school, thought it was the clarinet, it was the flute….so I’m going to learn the clarinet at 66😊

[@michaelbpastor]

Learning the clarinet can be very difficult. Kudos for getting some decent sound in a short period of time.

[@Zoey5374]

One KZbinr I like to watch about clarinet and bass clarinet is Earspasm Music. A lot of his videos have tips and tricks to improve your playing!

[@NODDY_cvr]

the most underrated youtuber fr!!!!! amazing work buddy keep it up

[@becauseisaac]

Stop!! Thanks :D

[@HeindsAG]

I thought you had Atleast 50K subs and then I looked down so I immediately subscribed bc you are wayy to underrated

[@becauseisaac]

Thanks!!! Hopefully getting there soon.

[@LeonardAMisner]

The last thing I would share just as an afterthought is if you have any questions about copyrights or managers or agents or how to contact A&R people in the industry... There's a book that comes out every year Songwriters guide 2023 I'm sure it must be out there. They list all the major labels around the world, They tell you what kind of music they record, They will list how many new artists they sign every year and they will tell you if you need to request permission to solicit your material. In many cases they provide a phone number and even the name of their AR guy. They also will list a name of the places that are in the industry to rip. Rip you off and let's face it if you know anything about the music industry. There are some sharks out there that once they get your name online, you are so screwed. They own you. This will also help you avoid any of those pitfalls

[@aleebrokenback5909]

u actually sounded insanely good for how long you've been playing and there's only two issues i could see. you seem to be tightening your embouchure too much which is probably because of the reed strength. That's actually the reason the notes were so strained which I think led to you tightening up even more. and face your head forward when you play for airflow and embouchure purposes.( if you dont mind me asking what strength reed were you using?)

[@becauseisaac]

That’s part of it I’m sure! But also, the instrument seems to play REALLY flat, and tightening my embouchure helps some…my reed is probably a 1.5 or something, as it came with the clarinet. Thanks for the comment!

[@ainsleygilson6869]

@@becauseisaac Maybe try a 2 1/2 or 3?

[@becauseisaac]

@@ainsleygilson6869 From my research, I that's what I thought too, will order!!!

[@ainsleygilson6869]

@@becauseisaac I know D'addario has some good plastic-coated reeds that respond really, really well while keeping a really good tone. They last longer and are harder to break too! Reeds from different brands are measured differently too. If I remember correctly, A Vandoren 3 1/2 was the same as several other brands' 3s.

[@becauseisaac]

@@ainsleygilson6869 I was looking at D'addario as I use their guitar strings too... probably will try that. Thanks!

[@bahukadapoet6764]

Cool! Now play Molly on the shore 😁!

[@mymo_in_Bb]

As a clarinetist, i mean, congrats, but that reed scrape at 1:53 hurt my soul also, if i may know, why didn't you get a clarinetist to record the parts instead of trying to speedrun learning an instrument? i'm absolutely not criticising the decision to learn the instument, i'm actually very impressed, and i know that trying to learn an instrument in this fashion can be a lot of fun, but it's near impossible to get any sort of recordable quality sounds out of the clarinet after such a short time. As you yourself said, it's very flat, and the timbre isn't perfect either (though i must say, it's amazing just how much you were able to hone the timbre after just two weeks, it took me months to get to that level!). So why didn't you get someone who already plays the clarinet to record the parts for you?

[@becauseisaac]

I appreciate the comment! I absolutely could have gotten someone to play it. But I wanted the challenge, and like you said, it’s so fun! In the actual mix, it will be pretty quite, so I thought it would be a great part to try and wing it my self.

[@kafenwar]

If reed scrapes bother you then don't bother listening to the recordings of Frank Teschemacher or Wilton Crawley.

[@mymo_in_Bb]

@@kafenwar Oh now i have to

[@gavinjones4515]

I’ve been playing clarinet for 5 years since sixth grade I’m in tenth grade and I’m 16 born in September 28th 2007

[@davidsnead7728]

Love your stuff, bother!

[@becauseisaac]

Thanks David!

[@Sophia26950]

If you tilt your head up a bit and the clarinet down, then put less mouthpiece in your mouth, it might make it easier to play.

[@donadams8345]

I've been playing clarinet for 64 years. My advice is to connect with a clarinet instructor.

[@amirbrandon]

Oh I love this song

[@becauseisaac]

You nailed this one. Kills me every time.

[@LeonardAMisner]

DUDE! This can be so much easier for you. I have a bachelor of Science Electronics engineering technology.. outside of my regular career, I have owned three recording studios and was an ASCAP member for about a decade in order to get airtime on local radio stations. YOU DO NOT NEED TO LEARN TO PLAY THE CLARINET. I had what is called a sampling keyboard. Ensonic If I spelled that correctly, maybe the sea is a q on the end. I can't remember. And what I had it. You could load samples from 3 and 1/2 in discs which I would imagine is just a USB port now. So if I wanted to play clarinet there's a clarinet sample. Actually there were several types of clarinet samples. I see you playing the clarinet part that you want on the piano. The inside keyboard is TACTILE. I have to imagine the technology is so much better today but even back in the '90s when I had this sampling keyboard there was an eight track sequencer also. I could take a drum kit and build my complete rhythm section on two or three channels of that 8 channel sequencer so I have drums and a bass guitar... You can copy and paste eight bars at a time or whatever. You can quantize stuff so that it's perfect digital timing. If you wanted a flute or clarinet or a saxophone or an entire string section, You simply load that sample and assign it to its track and as many times as you might need to put it together. You can even piece it together if you want. Like the clarinet sample for example, pretty much the same as with a flute. The note has an amplitude depending on the attack on that key and the depth of that key. And if you push the key all the way to the bottom, you can slowly come into if a brado and it's beautiful.

[@becauseisaac]

Thanks for your comments! YES! Sampled instruments are amazing. I actually have hundreds (maybe thousands) of sampled instruments. Learning Instruments is my hobby! That’s why I do it. sampled instruments generally just aren’t nuanced enough for what I want to do, but they are a wonderful tool.

[@LeonardAMisner]

@@becauseisaac and I do know what you're saying. I also learned to play the clarinet which was a great reference when I needed to put them some alto sax down on some tracks at a place I built in Houston called roughrider studios for a guy named Billy Ray Reynolds who had been on the road with Waylon Jennings for 7 years prior to moving to Houston. I'm retired. I picked up guitar a few times but never got good at it. I just picked up a Paul Reed Smith SE, maybe 6 months ago and I just have been playing a couple hours a day dedicated like you have to to get good at anything. Back in 2000 I took lessons during one of my periods where I lived here in South Carolina from a guy named Eddie Bush. He has multiple albums on iTunes. Dave Matthews is his producer. Since I moved back to South Carolina in 2003 after some engineering work I did in Chicago, I have looked them up and go listen to him in concert quite often. I liked the sampling because I can't see myself putting down an entire string section by myself if you know what I'm saying... Lol. The closest I can come to that is when I lived in Houston back in 79 and 80 when I built Billy Ray's studio for him. I had a roommate who was starting his own swimming pool installation company and his cousin needed a place to stay while he was trying to get his audition for the Houston symphony together along with attending Houston University out of scholarship. So his cousin, Jonathan suposchshnik.. Not sure of the spelling at all, showed up and he had just traded in his violin for a stratovarius. He was practicing one day and the lady from upstairs came down. Her mother also owns a stratovarius and plays for the Boston symphony. Of course she'd taking lessons for my mother for years and she also had a stratovarius. So when her mother showed up just a week later for a visit I had three strats in my front room.... I was in heaven. They all had sheet music and music sheets for just thrown all over the place in my front room. I did not have any drums but I don't know if you can play drums to some of the stuff they were playing if you know what I mean. 🤭 My girlfriend at that time is someone I was with for about 20 years and we did have a Yamaha studio Grand Ebony satin that was just beautiful in the front room. But again, you don't just jump in and jam with three strats playing Mozart, Tchaikovsky or Brahms and whatever the hell crazy else they were playing. I just know it was ear honey.

[@LeonardAMisner]

@@becauseisaac and having the sample is one thing. I'm not sure if you ever worked with an Ensonic keyboard. You know even from one piano to another the action on the keys is radically different. Electric keyboards. It's the same thing. The ensonic has weighted keys and the tactile sensing, was really amazing and very responsive to your attack and depth with the key. Even have adding a light vibrato to a heavier vibrato with the depth that you would take that keystroke. So you could actually put in a lot of the dynamics that you would not expect to be able to get unless you're actually playing the instrument. I don't know if they even still manufacture that product, or if there is anything equivalent made today.

[@Thatbassclarinetguy]

“ Firm corners”

[@Thatbassclarinetguy]

Just to clarify, I’m collecting everything that this man is doing wrong

[@Thatbassclarinetguy]

That Reed sticking out way too much

[@Thatbassclarinetguy]

It’s a horrible angle that that instrument is at

[@Thatbassclarinetguy]

Did you really just move your entire hand up to play A# 4:08

[@Thatbassclarinetguy]

Clarinet really isn’t that hard just takes a lot of practice but I wish you the best of luck 4:52

[@coin777]

7:40 You need to tune it more :D

[@LeonardAMisner]

Leonard Misner here Call me Len. I'm comfortably retired. I already have my name on more than 50 copyrights which let's face. It is not really a lot but for somebody that's not really doing music for a living. That's pretty groovy. I also have Ben published personally in technically. I had a book called in the children's best interest published in 2000. I held that in publication for 10 years and did free legal work for anyone needing help with the problems you will typically find in the anti-family core system. I never collected a penny for any of my free legal work and I'm undefeated in four states. 😁