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Practicing Marches on E-flat Clarinet

It’s summer in the United States, which means lots of hot days, camps, and band music! Having just spent two weeks on faculty at...

May Video Spotlight

As the school year and concert season wraps up, I always find myself looking forward to exploring new pieces over the summer months. If...

Preparing Technical Orchestral E-flat Clarinet Parts

This month's post is inspired by my freelance performing over the past year or so. I spend most of my time teaching, and play in an...

Altissimo and Alternate Fingerings: Making or Breaking Your E-flat Clarinet Experience

An E-flat clarinetist deals with a number of pitch inconsistencies inherent to the instrument, and similar to someone playing piccolo,...

Meet the D'Addario Reserve E-flat Clarinet Reed!

Reeds: of all the equipment we have as clarinetists, reeds probably win the love/hate relationship award. I know clarinetists that could...

Keeping Up Fundamentals

Happy August! For many of us, August means a return to school as a teacher or a student and the start of the regular concert season. As...

E-flat Clarinet at ClarinetFest 2017

It's almost time for ClarinetFest! Unfortunately, I won't be attending this year, but many of you will! ClarinetFest is always a great...

A Quick Guide to Reeds

Did anyone else think they were really horrible at E-flat clarinet when they first started playing it? I know I did. Things definitely...

3 Essentials for Successful E-flat Clarinetists

There are so many elements involved in playing clarinet. We have books and exercises for most anything you can think of - breathing,...

Practicing Versatility: How to Add Auxiliaries into Your Practice Routine

Have you ever been called to play with a group, and then scrambled to pick up an auxiliary instrument? Most clarinetists I know would...