How to play double lip embouchure pt. 3

Final installment of how to play double lip clarinet embouchure (french embouchure)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• clarinet
• teaching
• lesson
• playing
• embouchure
• ridenour

[EmoAngel666]

omg thank you so much i can hear the difference in my tone and it seems to make double tonguing easier as well. i can tongue twice as fast now and my tone is just like wowing people in my band but i have 1 question.... is it okay to use vibrato on clarinet cause i can do it quite well but i never hear pro's or anything do it?

[billyboy647]

Vibrato is perfectly acceptable on the clarinet. Harold Wright, one of the greatest players, used vibrato and had a singing approach to phrase seldom equaled. Like any other technique it must be used in good taste, like Rubato, for example. Just develop good tone production techniques and NEVER use vibrato to mask faults in your techniques.

[Jadacks]

Thank you so much for this, it has really helped me. It also made me realise and be more aware of how much I was biting.

[billyboy647]

glad you find it helpful. you must apply pressure to the reed in order to control it. this is obvious. my teachers told me not to bite, but they failed in two respects: they never defined what biting really is and they never gave me a viable alternative as a means of achieving reed control. This is one important thing these vids on embcouchure do. If you apply it I'm sure your playing will benefit from it.

[billyboy647]

You should not be biting AT ALL! Double lip does not mean only biting a little---it means using a completely different means of controlling the reed than upward jaw pinch.

[billyboy647]

It will work well for you. If your braces are not bulky and your upper lip is not too short you should be fine. If, on the other hand, if the braces are bulky you may want to wait until they are removed to work on the technique. It WILL improve your playing whenever you decide to work on it.

tom

[mrsalexismelese]

This really helped me to bend pitch and play jazz really well!(:

[strboxer12]

Excuse me Mr.Tom. Whenever i play double lip altissimo D and E tend to squeak. Could you provide some insight on this? Thx alot.

[trumpetharmonica]

Hí BB,

as I told you before I have playe´d Double lip all the time on my Alto sax. did´nt know another way to do it when i started alone 15 Y ago!

also play trumpet, that is may main instrument.

My Trumpet playing gives me fantasic strong upper lip in Saxophone playing! Thank´s for Good Tipz on double Lip!

Take care,

Johnny

[blakrose000]

hey, before I start working with this I was wondering if you've ever had a student pull this off with braces. Seems a bit difficult, but if it's possible I'd love to master it.