Tutorials and Courses
Hello and welcome
Here you will find courses and tutorials on many topics related to the clarinet and more are coming all the time!
Available so far are:
- Reeds - everything you need to know
- Breathing and support - the key to almost everything
- Legato - the supreme discipline
- Staccato - beautiful AND fast
- Power of dynamics
Work in progress:
- Improvisation for classics
- Practicing correctly - but effectively!
- Clarinet repair
- Double tonging
- Permanent breathing
- Klezmer - all techniques
- Find your sound
- Audition training
- Stage fright - get rid of it!
and more...
Take a look around and check out the free videos!
Playing the clarinet is easier and goes better and faster than you ever thought!
Legato
the supreme discipline
Sample-Video
Three videos, 33 minutes in total.
For Boehm and German system.
Video 1 - Air
- the constant air flow
- the approach
- Examples
- noises during the sound change?
- my basic exercises
Video 2 - Fingers
- the fingers have to "play along
- loud finger noises
- fast runs - small movements
- finger exercise WITHOUT clarinet
- king exercise legato
- the "string of pearls
- If it doesn't go like this...
Video 3 - with emotion, please
- Adagio by Mozart
- the "key" to interpretation
- Practice with orchestra playback (available for download, for A and Bb clarinet)
- Trick for the perfect line
- "Oblivion" by Astor Piazzolla
16,00 Euro
Staccato
Beautiful AND Fast
Sample-Video
Three videos, 33 minutes in total
For Boehm and German system
Video 1 - Sound and position
- the different types of staccato
- the "perfect" staccato
- the correct position
- the bounded beat
- background noises???
- sound quality
Video 2 - Speed
- The three most important exercises for fast staccato
- Attention! muscle overload!
- Staccato with "direction"
- Looseness is your best friend
Video 3 - Staccato yes, but please be flexible
- the stop staccato
- Light Tounging
- Super Light Tounging!!!
- Example "Round Midnight
- Flexibility
16,00 Euro
AIR
the key to almost everything
Sample-Video
Four videos, 38 minutes in total.
For Boehm and German system.
Video 1 - Love greetings to your body
- What is breath support?
- And body tension...?
- a sound that enchants
- Do you have to be big and strong??
- the perfect blowing resistance
- reeds, pressure point and blowing angle
Video 2 - the most important comes now
- the most important exercise
- Attention intonation!
- Lung capacity and the ingenious breathing exercise
- air speed
- the "paper exercise
- subtone
Video 3 - the most common mistake
- the most common mistake
- Planning and organization of breathing
- Where to breathe?
- Example "The shepherd on the rock"
Video 4 - your body
- Muscle training & fitness
- Less is more - but regularly
- the "natural" strength
16,00 Euro
Reeds
All you need to know
Sample-Video
Two videos, 20 minutes in total.
For Boehm and German system.
Video 1 - the most important steps
- Is it worthwhile to edit reeds at all?
- Clear YES!!!
- significantly extend the life of the reeds
- the tools
- polishing - the magic processing
- equalization of the sides
- the heart
- the reedgeek
- the correct feeding of reeds
Video 2 - Advanced editing
- Known where. Scheme to print for all edits!!!
- the margins
- the right resistance
- Flatten the tip
- revive tired reeds
- the magic articulation point
- the reed jams
- the low register
16,00 Euro
POWER OF DYNAMICS
Sample-Video
Three videos. 30 minutes in total.
For Boehm and German system.
Video 1 - Dynamics, the opposite of boredom.
- Dynamics or volume?
- Clarinetists have a great advantage
- the three types of dynamics
- the king exercise
- why is it so important?
Video 2 - the practice
- extension of the dynamics
- Attention intonation
- Example Weber 1st Concerto
- Example Debussy Rhapsody
- The power of the pianissimo
- Exaggerate!
Video 3 - Step and accent dynamics
- Accent dynamics - example Sacre
- Exercise Accent Dynamics
- Example Piazzolla
- Stravinsky solo pieces
- Step dynamics - example Bach
- Attention Tempo!
16,00 Euro
