How to Play Smoothly Over the Break on Clarinet

[@brendakidd8636]

I recently started playing again after many years. You are addressing issues that I have had starting back up. I was pretty good before, but have struggled to get my chops back. So many things get forgotten over those many years. Thank you!

[@vapsman88]

Thanks, Cally. I find relaxing my jaw helps and imagining it's not a big deal to play the Clarion Notes.

[@callyclarinet]

Yes! Sometimes the problem only exists in our head 🎶

[@donnamitchell7composerarranger]

Yes over the break was always tricky. you make it sound flawless! very nice tutorial and playing, Cally! 🎶🎶🎶

[@callyclarinet]

Thank you!!!

[@RainboTea_TM]

Thanks! I just started bass clarinet and this should help me on that too

[@callyclarinet]

Yes, this would be excellent on bass!

[@jeffreyprice453]

I am a master of the honk or chirp over the break. Also, an expert in all general squawks, barks and other scary clarinet noises that mortify cats, students, or audience members. Your tip on the fingers to stay close is a key for me as a doubler with a band hand. Basically, I just need to be aware that I am covering the holes with the correct hand position. Left hand for me is key: Identifying if you are just missing a little on the register key( position of thumb and rocking over break), left hand first finger( did I rock appropriately or take a shortcut and lift to throat tones. That gets me ajar for the return. That is also my bad finger so can’t feel like normal folks), or left hand third finger seem to be my major culprits especially after throat tones (because I lost my hand position trying to cover other things.) My right hand as a doubler is usually good with less potential bad outcomes…..but in other keys, I can get a “ squawk gap” when playing various pinky combinations and the something like the third finger right hand may ride up depending on speed and interval. Or again, things in the left hand mentioned could go askew if I am concentrating on various right hand pinkies.

[@callyclarinet]

Great tips, thanks Jeff!

[@aaronj.9436]

Thanks for this advice! I’ve been working on air support and high tongue position with my private instructor

[@callyclarinet]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@aspenx1304]

Beautiful playing ❤️💜💙

[@callyclarinet]

Thank you very much!

[@glenntomassi3442]

Exellent! thank you!

[@cafiristanemperor]

Hello. Thank you very much for the video! Could you talk about your opinions on saxophone and clarinet embouchures? I think that lots of people have different opinions on the subject. I play concert flute, recorder and saxophone. Since I am a music school teacher, my goal is to reach working level of as many instruments as I can, in order to teach students the basics and be able to send them to especialized teachers in the conservatory later here in Brazil. That being said, as far as I could observe, I can play the clarinet with the same embouchure that I use with the saxophone, which is jazz oriented (with the lower lip not folded around the teeth). I couldn't notice any major change. Is there really a difference between sax and clarinet embouchures or is it more like a culturally fed myth? Again, thank you very much and to all possible teachers that can answer my question! Cheers from Brazil and here is a gift for you as a token of friendship! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaHLemt_msaEaZY

[@callyclarinet]

Well… I don’t play sax, so I don’t have much of an opinion. BUT I think the embouchure should be determined by the kind of sound you’re after, the kind of music you’re playing, and who you’re playing with. I was taught to play with a classical, USA-American clarinet sound, so that’s the kind of embouchure I teach, along with high tongue position, etc. of course there are many variations even within that, especially when it comes to tongue position, but I think at the end of the day just do what sounds good 🙂 Cheers, thanks for checking out my channel! Someday I wish to visit Brazil!

[@graciefacie8882]

Cally do u have any tips on tonguing more lightly on the clarinet? cause sometimes when I tongue high notes a get under tone and i want my low notes to sound cleaner

[@callyclarinet]

Yes, more air support, and light "feather touch" of the tongue as close to the tip of the reed as possible, and moving the tip of your tongue the shortest distance possible. Reginald Kell in his staccato studies says something like (I can't remember exactly) that the tongue should move no more than a quarter of the distance of the blink of an eye 👁️

[@clarinetninja]

This is a great video!

[@callyclarinet]

Thanks!! Your channel is pretty cool too 😎

[@clarinetninja]

@@callyclarinet thanks! What’s cool to me is solid actionable information and you have lotsa that

[@irenaildesilva5957]

Oh Love exercise

[@atiebernet2858]

Find free music of me, A. Bernet on the clarinet institute

[@emjay2045]

Nice 🌱 🪴

[@callyclarinet]

Thanks! It's a good thing Luke is not a plant nibbler...

[@crazydhesi]

Thank you for your wonderful tips, just tried this on bass clarinet kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIi4Yqd6rZqmmKssi=WJMAB7SI6rh3KclX I still can’t figure out how you played the whole first section in one breath 😂

[@saulogoncalvesmoreno188]

Great job 🎉!!!! Are you using M/o ligatures now? Why? In a video I remember that you didn’t like it.

[@callyclarinet]

Yeah, I’m not sure how long I will stay with this. I switched to Vandoren traditional 4’s (instead of V12’s) and thought I would experiment with ligatures and these reeds.

[@saulogoncalvesmoreno188]

I’ve never think about the jaw imoportance, I will notice this now, thanks again 😅

[@saulogoncalvesmoreno188]

I would like to try the buffet crampon ligatures. Has a silver ligature, and icon in rose gold and black nickel, Is similar the Austrian ligatures…