Welcome to World of Clarinet

Here at World of Clarinet you will find courses and tutorials, test reports, sheet music, arrangements and compositions about the clarinet and it's getting more and more!

When practicing, my goal has always been to improve my technique so that I can produce a maximum of creativity and musicality. At the same time it was always important to get a nice round and full tone that is equally flexible. Brahms should sound like Brahms and Artie Shaw should sound like Artie Shaw.

That's why there are tutorials here on legato and staccato, but also on breathing, the all-important dynamics, and overcoming technical difficulties. Take a look around. There's sure to be something for you.

Brand new is the extensive tutorial on improvisation on the clarinet. A simple as well as ingenious method with which everyone, no matter if professional, amateur or beginner, will learn to improvise. And it's effortless and guaranteed fun!

Andy Miles & Saho Omukai

Learning clarinet is easy when you do it right from the very beginning!

Here you will find everything you need to achieve your clarinet goals.

TUTORIALS

Topics around the clarinet

Better Sound
Fast fingers
Breathing & Support
Reeds

etc....

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SHEET MUSIC

Arrangements and Compositions

Duets / Trios / Quartets
Clarinet & String Quartet
Classical / Jazz / Tango
Clarinet Solo with Orchestra

and more...

to Sheet Music

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SONGS AND ARIAS FOR CLARINET AND PIANO

Beautiful arrangements. And many of them with a playalong for download (piano playback)

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TESTS & REVIEWS

of mouthpieces, clarinets, reeds. And there is always more to come...

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Tutorials

Dynamics

Our big advantage!

Sample-Video

Volume or Dynamics???

You should know the difference!!!

The opposite of boredom!

With tips and tricks you probably didn't know yet...

Three videos / 29 minutes.

For Boehm and German system.

Video 1 - Dynamics - the opposite of boredom

Volume or Dynamics?
Clarinets have a big advantage
the three types of dynamics
the king exercise
Why is that so important?

Video 2 - the Practice

Increase Dynamics
Intonation
Weber 1. Concert
Debussy Rhapsody
The Power of Pianissimo
Exaggerate

Video 3 - Accent- & Terrasse Dynamics

Accent dynamics - sample Sacre du Printemps
Exercise Accent dynamics
The music of Astor Piazzolla
Strawinsky Solopieces
Terrasse -dynamics - Bach
Tempo!

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Perfect Warm-Up

THAT will get you further!

Sample-Video

It's better to warm-up 15 minutes correctly than to practice incorrectly for two hours!

The best (and most effective) exercises by me and many other solo clarinetists.

Three Videos / 18 minutes.

For Boehm and German system.

Video 1 - Why is warming-up on clarinet so important?

We want to get better
We want to sound better
Never practice sense-less
You can do a lot right when you warm-up
the most effective exercises
10 perfect exercises for daily practice

Video 2 - Best of I

All exercises are important, but some are more important!
Long tones
Register change middle register
Register change high register
Muscle fatigue
Major thirds, forts, fifths
Synchronized fingers
Chromatic scale
Small movements

Video 3 - Best of II

Portato
High speed
Staccato pure
Through all keys
Staccato with target note
Triads
Diminished chords
All articulations

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Stage fright?

Get rid of it!

The stage is not your enemy! Positive thinking alone is not enough

Going on stage does not lead to death

We all know stage fright.

If you want to get rid of it, watch this video.

Three Videos / 30 minutes

Video 1 - Stage fright. What is that actually?

Top performance starts in the head
The subconscious
Do I have to be perfect?
Beliefs, feelings and actions
Your Mindset
Repetition and automation

Video 2 - the practice I

Practice and rehearsal
Concert preparation
Mental preparation
Think positive
The most powerful weapon against nervousness
Going on stage does not lead to death

Video 3 - the practice II

Stress as a further development of the escape reflex
Tricking out stress
A perfect breathing exercise!
Get familiar with the situation
Your posture is more important than you might think
Organization - breathing/notes/reeds/lighting
Let the music be your guide
Look forward to your concert

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Mastering

technical difficulties

If you know the way, you can get anywhere!

With these tips & tricks you can do everything!

With methods from me and many other solo clarinetists.

Plus:

Background information about our brain you should know!

Two Videos / 22 minutes

Video 1 - The technique of practicing

There are better methods than repeating a difficult passage over and over again
Your body remembers every movement, even the wrong ones!
With this method, every fast passage will seem slow in the end
Practiced and afterwards it does not work?
Learn and save at 20 times the speed!
The 5/15 rule

Video 2 - the practice - simple and ingenious!

From back to front
Dotted and counter-dotted
Muscle training for the fingers
Attention finger pressure!
Posture: Relaxed AND dynamic
Technique technically or musically?

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Legato

the supreme discipline

Sample-Video

Staccato excites, but legato ENCHANTS!

And that's why we've dedicated an entire tutorial to legato.

Three Videos / 33 minutes

For Boehm- and German system.

Video 1 - the air

constant air flow
the embouchure
Noises when changing the tone?
basic exercises

Video 2 - Fingers

the fingers must "play along"
loud finger noises
fast runs - small movements
exercise WITHOUT clarinet
supreme exercise legato
the "pearl chain"
When things don't go that way...

Video 3 - Please with "music"

The Adagio from Mozart
the "key" for interpretation
Practice with orchestra playback (available for download, for A and Bb clarinet)
Trick to get the perfect line
"Oblivion" from Astor Piazzolla

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