Warm Up & Daily Practice of the Clarinet

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Hi! For expertvillage.com this is Mitch Kaplan. In this clip we will be talking about different warmup techniques. The first one we would like to talk about is the air, how important it is and how you warmup with it. A good one is to start with air, then producing a sound, gently increasing the volume of the air, and then decreasing it, and then air again, keeping it all and as an even proportion. Here is an example… The next thing that we would like to talk about is the tongue, how to warmup the tongue. The tongue is done by doing certain slurring and tonguing techniques, slurring means putting the notes together. First it sounds like this… or you can do it at a faster rate… or you can tongue differently, you can tongue separate the first one and then slur the other two, so it would sound like this… So by changing where you would tongue, it would help increase your ability to learn how to tongue, for when it came to music. The next thing is long tones; long tones develop an important factor and that is your mouth position, your embouchure, so by doing long tones, you can hold them out for about four beats and do a scale… and there you have it. The next thing is fingering, fingering, warming up your fingers is just as important, by doing several different scales and different types of patterns, here is an example of a pattern…

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