Day 1 - The Basics To Sounding Good on Clarinet
There are a few good habits that make a huge difference to how good we sound and how easy it feels to make a sound. This first free training session covers the basics of embouchure (mouth shape), air and gear to help you get a good sound.

We covered many things related to sounding good on clarinet. Here are some highlights:

2:33 - Our focus and topic list today

4:41 Step One Embouchure - bottom lip

8:08 Step Two Embouchure - How much mouthpiece to use

10:32 Step Three Embouchure Corners of mouth exercises

14:02 Common Bad Habits to avoid - head and clarinet angle corrections

19:00 Voicing - How our tongue helps us sound much better

25: 20 Common Bad habit - "Biting" on the reed 

27:46 Embouchure Tester Diagnostic Tool

32:00 Why does tonguing sound worse than slurring?

34:24 AIR! So important!

36:19 Breathing in relaxed

38:18 ****How To Blow out and use our ab muscles (DONT SKIP THIS PART)

45:30 - Free Training 5 Days To Better Clarinet Tone - www.5daybetterclarinet.com

46:44 How to visualize our airstream

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49:38 Mouthpiece Selections

52:14 Reeds - Have you outgrown yours?

56:09 - Do you know how you want to sound?

Followed by your questions on mouthpieces, tuning, squeaking, High notes and more.

All sessions will be recorded and replays are available by clicking on the images below.