How to fix your clarinet section

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This article from Bret Pimentel Winds. The original address: https://bretpimentel.com/how-to-fix-your-clarinet-section/

Teaching a beginning or intermediate clarinet section? Here are some things to consider:

• Things beginning band directors say to clarinet sections
• Playing flat on the clarinet
• Breath support
• Voicing
  • Handout: woodwind voicing
  • Voicing: stable vs. flexible
  • Voicing and clarinet undertones
• Embouchure
  • Please stop telling your clarinet students to tighten their embouchures
  • Stop teaching clarinet and saxophone embouchures like this
  • Clarinet and saxophone embouchures and the “chin”
• Articulation
  • “Starting” notes with the tongue
  • Accents and the tongue (or not)
  • Tonguing and language sounds
• Fingers
  • Clarinet pinky fingerings
  • Doubling up pinky fingers on the clarinet
  • Staying connected to the clarinet
  • Why do I need to use alternate fingerings?
  • Selecting alternate fingerings
  • Purposeful fingering choices
• “The break”
  • Crossing the break on the clarinet is easy
  • Breath support, register breaks, and resistance
• Equipment
  • Why doesn’t my new mouthpiece work?
  • What kind of ligature should I get?
  • FAQ: Ligatures
  • Play reeds that fit
  • Evaluating reeds
  • The right clarinet or saxophone reed strength “for you”
• Repair and maintenance
  • Do it yourself: replace a tenon cork
  • Should I tighten the screws on my woodwind instrument?
  • Woodwind instrument “care kits” are bad news

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