Advice for playing the clarinet I am in high school and I want to get better, tips advice anything please?

I would definitely recommend taking private lessons. Your director can probably suggest some good tutors. If that's not possible, then I would say you'd just have to practice; work on scales, rhythms, fingerings, and tone. Make sure you have good reeds and a good mouthpiece (I'm currently using Vandoren 3s- silver box, and a Vandoren B45 mouthpiece). Have fun! :)Advice for playing the clarinet I am in high school and I want to get better, tips advice anything please?
PracticeAdvice for playing the clarinet I am in high school and I want to get better, tips advice anything please?
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Practice, practice, practice.





Learn the chromatic scales, work on your fingering, make sure you're using the proper reed.





I played Clarinet for nearly 10 years and then stopped when I graduated. I picked one up not too long ago and still knew the chromatic scale...nearly 20 yrs after I'd last played it.
Maybe you could get with a more advanced clarinet player and have them help you a little. But if that's not an option, just make sure your mouth is tight against the mouthpiece. Scales will help tremendously considering it is the most important thing in music. Buy a songbook and play through it. Practice will help since it can make you extremely better. Try and find out about any contests or places that you can go and play a song to get scored. Maybe you have a Solo and Ensemble thing you can go to. It'll help you play in front of people and tell you how good you are.
Etudes and exercises are VERY beneficial. I recommend anything by Rose, Klose, or Baermann.
Hey, I'm in high school also and I've been playing the clarinet since the 6th grade and I've always got first or second chair. All I do is practice, but it really helps me alot if I hear the peice before I play it so that I'm familiar with what I'm going to play. But GO CLARINETS!

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