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  • hey im sorry but you holding ur hands wrong ur left it sapost to be on top just saying

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  • okay I dont even play clairinet, im looking to learn and even I know that hes not very skilled...

  • he never went over the break, i have a feeling he can't

  • we should flag the video as inappropriate under "it promotes terrorism.."

  • teach me teach me teach me teacher

  • I like idiotvillage. Their videos are so very informative of what not to do.

  • lol i didnt get that

  • I hope he dies a little inside everyday because of this. 

  • Are you playing clarinet?Sounds like bamboo to me.

  • @1976mnb

    ikr hes so fail

  • asshole!

  • Imma 6th Grade Advanced Player And Im Way Better Than You

  • oh wow he reaaly sounds gross....i play so much better then him.

  • he's an expert on what you shouldn't do

  • im better and im in 6th grade beg, xD

  • At first I thought all of these bad comments were because of a bad camera. Dude, you don't use volume, use faster air dumbass! You are so flat I think I will kill myself, and playing with a jazz style doesn't help... at all. Also, stop trying to bend notes, it sounds horrible even if you're good. You also sound like you have no clue what you're talking about. People know how to do things when they practice, which is something you really need to do. USE TIP OF TONGUE, TIP OF REED, SYLLABLE DEE!!!

  • I almost lost my hearing when he when flat on that first note..that was just awful.

  • You sound like dog shit!

  • and his tone sucks, especially for an expert

  • My teacher told me to do those kinds of long tones, too. But he stressed keeping it in tune the entire time, because, well, that was the whole point of the exercise.

  • Damn this one made me want to dredge up my clarinet and show how to play... not that I am that good, but heck, I cannot be this bad!

  • rude people ...

  • You suck !!

  • His theory is correct however he is not putting it into practise!!! Ummmmmm not very good really! :/

  • you suck...

  • what the shit is this???

  • Amazing how ignorant people insist on critisize mr. Kaplan but they themselves don't take the time nor the effort to bring something of value forward to the table....Bravo!...Bravisimo!..­.Mr. Kaplan thank you so much for your token...

  • Even tone? Doesn't that mean that there's the same amount of volume AND staying on pitch? There are fourth graders who are better than this! He cannot hold a note without it going sharp! This isn't fourth grade village! It's supposed to be EXPERTVILLAGE! Let's get some people who actually know how to play clarinet on here!

  • @Pirateman317

    One tip if you want to listen to two very good clarinet players, is to check out the British clarinettist Julian Bliss or the Norwegian clarinettist Felix Peikli.

  • @crazygirl0404 or me

  • His sound is cutting out on some of the notes and then coming back in again but you can hear the mistake. I am only grade one but I know an expert should not get a sound like this on the clarinet.

  • Nice long tone at the beginning. I especially like the part where it got all sharp at the end.

  • I cant see his face people!

  • great ..awesome playing

  • This guy has the worst tips out there!

  • ******************

  • his clarinet sounds like its glitching.

  • @raaszombie Took the words out of my mouth!

  • Lol, noob! XD

  • his tone does suck, but his technique is true. Consistant air is key to all instruements.

  • @NinjaDave29 ...except for all percussion and strings...

  • 0:37 - 0:46 is an excellent example of how the clarinet naturally becomes sharp when played piano, or flat (relatively) when played forte. You need to adjust your embouchure and or fingerings to compensate for this. This guy is not listening to his own sound.

  • His tone is complete shit...

  • Reader's comments here are hilarious--there are some really bright, witty and funny people out there!

    This video is preposterous. There is NO good reason why it has not been removed.

    It should come with a warning label:

    "For entertainment purposes only. Do NOT try this at home!"

  • What is he trying to teach? LOL

  • so i was looking for a clarinet lesson thing on youtube and i thought i'd look at this and i saw everyone's comments about how bad he is and i thought... he can't be that bad...

    but i've been playing about an hour and i'm pretty sure i have better tone than this guy.

  • What the hell?

    Has the guy even played Clarinet for at least 2 weeks? Lol.

    I'm sorry, but he sucks. XD

  • @Xcrazzykidss321X Yeah He Is In Expert He Does Not Suck I Cant even Play As Good As That And I Am About In Grade 3 Clarinet

  • @Xcrazzykidss321X I LOVE YOU! someone who knows what there talking about

  • I'd like to take this opportunity to thank every clarinet teacher I ever had for being way better than this.

  • No affense....but you kinda...suck.....

  • jeez louise..... im so glad ive never sounded like this in the 10 years ive been playing clarinet through middle, school, and now in college at UNA [look us up!] nor will i EVER sound that bad. :D A for effort in trying to teach though, i guess. to each his own

  • He breathes after every 2 notes. Fail.

  • you suck. Sorry, but ya do.

  • FYI:I am a clarinetist: I'm not amazing but I'm not bad either. He is not the worst I've heard and I suggest that any of the clarinetists that sent in a negative comment below make their own videos and let themselves be judged on youtube. If you're happy to slag off someone else's playing in a "mob" then I'm sure you'll be happy to do it when others do it to you? Sorry if this offends, but I find it so shit when people take their time to make videos and people thank them by slagging them off!

  • blondie4U333: I totally agree with you

  • It's expertvillage. Get over it. They're here to try to teach us, but obviously suck at it. Smart people know they can't teach or something, so they don't make videos that make fools out of themselves. I'm a clarinetist, too (yes my name says I play piccolo, but I play both) btw. Sucking at playing's not a crime, but if you're going to teach people, you should at least get a decent sound and be able to play at leaste at a decent level.

  • lmao. his clarinet is in wrong position.

    out of tune also.

  • and he gets payed for this!?

  • OMG you suk

  • This man must be a masochist. Why does he keep allowing everyone to make fun of him??

    He's terrible and NOBODY should use this video as a means to learning how to play clarinet.

    Wretched!

  • terrrible tone :S

  • you play terribly no offense at 0:36 you didn't make any sound

  • holy shit he plays too bad =S

  • omg? at 0.36s the sound din even come out -.-"

  • Tuning is shocking! Expert Village is a massive joke!

  • not being rude, but on 2:08 Through 2:29, you sucked!

  • I agree; as a clarinetist, you should at least be able to play over four bars without breath easily

  • the tone should not change that much when changing dynamics...Also, his reed did not even respond....I'm far from the bets clarinet player but this guy should not be teaching if he can not exhibit some knowledge of the clarinet.

  • ITS REALLY NOT TO PUFF YOUR CHEEKS

    you have to have the propor mouth position

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  • wow cool sound =D

  • does anybody know how to play the clarinet without puffing your cheecks

    plz reply if u do

  • What you need to do is work on tightening your cheeks so they dont puff there really isnt a good way to explain it but tighten your cheeks but dont tighten your embouchure thats the best i can explain it hope i can help

  • play low, it helps a lot

  • boooo!!!! you suck ass!!!!!

  • Poor, very poor

  • you suck

  • I'm a flute player and I can totally own him when I play clarinet. I should send him to failblog XD

  • This seriously should be taken off. What if a young musician was thinking of picking an instrument and listened to this crap would they really want to play the clarinet now??? If your here to teach and inspire then put someone on that knows what the heck there doing not some amature who has not all been playing that long this is really sad that they would really try to teach someone this way.

  • omg hes like a real life version of ross from friends

  • i dont really like your playing

    however, your tone is pretty nice, and i like the vibrato's you add at the end =]

  • Haha I always warm up by playing an extract from Can-can, and then playing an extract from 1812 Overture. My music teachers and the people in the bands get really annoyed at it, but I tell them I need to do it as a warm up :D

  • wow..... i am waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy much better than this "expert"

  • lol who isn't.

    You could teach a monkey to play better then him in a week.

  • Wow his clarinet sounds like my trombone after a week of built up condensation.

  • that's not funny....

  • wow im thirty times better then this guy and im in high school. isnt he supposed to be an "expert"?

  • he should put the water out of his mouthpiece...

  • ....

  • Oh wow. Everything is wrong in this D= I really do hope no one tries to take his 'techniques.'

  • :)) he sucks at playink...he has no sound ... i have a greater sound on my clarinett

  • The guy doesn't know how to play in tune. =_= And he sucks. He goes sharp flat in tune sharp.. O_O

  • hahaha so out of tune

  • this guys on pot

  • I take it back. The woman isn't bad, but this guy is terrible.

  • my band teacher told me this is how the tongue movement sounds with out the clarient... TAH TAH TAH TAH TAH hehe if anyone is reading EE2000 tell me what number you arte on... I am on 39. (my band members kept quiting so we havent gotten far XD)

  • theres a popping noise and u have problems starting to pblow

  • thats how its supossed to sound you ignorant loser. he said gently increasing the air to volume.

  • im talking about the popping. its not supposed to make that noise

  • Man!!!!!!!! Where do they find you guys?!!!! poor clarinet!!!

  • saxophone player

  • I suck at Clarinet of course I just started but I am a lot more high pitched I just dtarted today and I have learned that it takes a lot of breath to hold out notes...

  • Hey I think you are all being very cruel. Finally George Costanza starts to do something and you just can't give him a break.

  • Um... I think u're blowing de clarinet wrongly coz ur cheeks shouldn't puff up when u blow and de tone is very wrong.

  • you swear your a pro

  • I am a college student/performance major on clarinet, I have been playing clarinet for the last 16 years. My professors sent this video to everyone in the clarinet studio to warn us about all the CRAP that is actually out there influencing the malleable minds of young musicians everywhere!

  • his clarinet sounds weird o__O.. so how NOT to play.

  • Okay, here's the plan. We're going to find this said "expert village" and blow it to pieces.

  • Give him a break, even "expert village" has to have an expert village idiot.

  • hahahahhahah how true..

  • man this guy sucks ass

  • in the beggining of the video when you went from loud to sharp, you went from in tune to incredibly sharp.

  • CAN SOMEONE JUST TAKE THIS VIDEO OFF OF YOUTUBE!? He doesn't even know what he's talking about...

  • iv played the clarinet for 2 1/2 years at wooddale middle and still playin and i can play and explain it way better than he kan his clarinet needs a maintaince job or he needs more lessons cuz he sounds VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY BADDDDD

  • OMG THANK YOU! THIS WAS SOOOOO HELPFUL!  I'M NOT BEING SARCASTIC! i FINALLY know how NOT to sound on the clarinet! THANK YOU EXPERTVILLAGE!

  • WTF is he doing? Iv been playing the clarinet for 5 years now and i sounded better than him and all the other people they have on expert village when i was in the 6th grade...

  • Called cresendo and decresendo............ And do u have a pad loose or something?

  • this guy sounds like asshole

  • what the hell are you doing?

    stop it.

    why do you guys, EXPERT VILLAGE!!! OMG!!!11one111 even try?

  • i know right! all their video's suck!! they are always wrong orjust suck at something

  • yupp.

    Let's assassinate Expert Village!!!

  • this guy isn't very good =/

    he has the basic's but I think he just read a book and learned in a week.

  • okay my cuz is entering her second year in clarinet and she is much better teaching clarinet than this guy

  • HAHAH WHAT A CLOWN! this guy's almost as bad as acker bilk. ... nah no one even comes close to acker bilk haha.

  • Ahhh - have not laughed so much for years. Absolute class act from this guy.

  • wellhe is doing good for all you who cannot even play!

  • lol what the hell was he doing??? the loud notes went totally out of tune... Is he tongueing or what???

  • well i'm going to have to say he has good tone at the end of each phrase...but i have to also say that he's not so good at teaching

    :D

  • oh my gosh... don't even try to watch this video, this guy is hiding his left pinky around minute 2:00 while playing the F Mayor scale!!! Mr. Sloppy's "techniques" are a disgrace for the clarinet world.

  • he is im a clarinet player and i know your not sapose to take your fingers that far away from the clarinet!!!

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  • this guy is rubbish!! my dog could play better than this!!! whats going on with his tonality and tongueing???

  • He needs to work on his embrocher and tone. Is his embrocher like a basoon players? Lookes like it.

  • at 50 seconds he's like the next ...THING hahah LOL

  • just lol

  • WOW!! anybady can play better than this sucka!

  • Hahaha!

    Wtf?

    Why is this guy even trying?

    Horrible.

  • he's terrible

  • this guy sucks he can't play and can't even talk without saying um or ahhhh

  • tonging haha i spelled it wrong

  • Id advice this person, if you cant even play a clarinet properly dont even try.

  • on the very first note he went way sharp lol, i play the sax (6 years) and im probably a better clarinet player than he is lol

  • I have 12 year old students that sound like professionals compared to this guy! And, what's with the studdering.

  • What's wrong with this guy's low F? It sounds screwed up. Ha ha....And not just that. He's doing lots of other stuff wrong too. He looks like he's been playing for like 2 months or something. :P I don't like this dude.

  • I agree with you winkclarinet! Really bad teaching!

  • Wow...I am a clarinet teacher and I really need to sit this guy down and fix his playing! Wrong teaching, bad intonation, and bad air support!

  • Agreed.  I am also a clarinet teacher and this drives me crazy. Gah! I hate Expert Village!

  • what can i say... i play better than him... suck that he still teaching.

  • If all of you guys are better. Then prove it by posting videos of your playing.

  • This fellow is obviously quite nervous--he rushes what he says so that it isn't a bit helpful to the viewer. Also someone stuck the microphone right up into his bell, producing a pretty nasty sound. He seems to be a jazz player with the occasional vibrato. What bothers me is that he thinks he is good enough to be doing this. Not so. Mr. Kaplan. This is not what you should be doing.

  • How long have you been playing? Is this the way american clarinet teachers play??

  • no this guy just sucks ass

  • How long have you been playing......? This is only my second year and I can play way better than that.

  • OMG! You can't even play a MINISCULE dynamic range (your first example) without going massively out of tune. Kill yourself now you piece of crap.

  • "The tongue is done by doing certain slurring and tonguing techniques." Wow. Way to explain yourself. This person makes me want to die.

  • man u SUCK!

    i am so better than u!

  • oh and your post on the lower joint is loose. you can hear it

  • you suck at playing the clarinet. too much air dumbass! i know, cause i play better than you

  • *twitch*No comment.Just..no comment.*twitch*

  • How can you take practice lessons????? What sheet staccato and sound!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • omg lol this is so bad. maybe helpful for beginner students, but im a music major who sees alot of bad habits in his playing. he doesnt know what hes talking about either :S hes probably playing a student setup which doesnt help his tone, but ok for a beginners introduction.

  • 0:17-0:29

    LOL ROFL i lolt

  • gag !

  • okay this isnt a video to impress people its to help so why are you comming at the man with negative remarks.

  • Because he's an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about and will probably do more harm than good

  • Ummm.... ok.... well that didnt help me at all.

  • He sounds somewhat...ill...in the mind........

    He puffs his cheeks, and his tone sucks, and he plays vibrato on everything.

  • he sucks, im only 12 and can play supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious

  • i don't think he did such a bad job, i found it helpful

  • The tone deaf leading the tone deaf?

  • i dont like his sound..........