On this page, clarinet players will find videos and other resources related to clarinet playing and instrument care. Please refer to this page often as Mr. Barnard updates this page regularly.
For tutorial videos designed specifically to our Measures of Success Book, CLICK HERE to view videos put together by our D97 Elementary Band Teachers.
A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to Dr. Selfridge, for putting together these great video tutorials for beginners! I highly recommend that students and families follow him on YOUTUBE, TWITTER and his website: gobando.com
This video will demonstrate how to properly open the clarinet case and name all of the parts of the clarinet.
It is very important for students to view this video with their family in order to properly take care of their clarinet.
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In this video, students will learn how to put together the mouthpiece, barrel and reed.
Students should view this video with their families in order to properly take care of their clarinet.
Pay close attention on how to take care of clarinet reeds. Students need to be careful with reeds so that they are not easily broken.
It's okay to break a reed, however you don't want to have a habit of breaking reeds all the time.
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In this video, students will learn how to make a sound on the mouthpiece, barrel, and reed.
Pay close attention on how to form a good embouchure (how to set lips) on the mouthpiece and reed.
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In this video, students will learn about reeds and how to care for them. Reeds are essential in order to make a sound on the clarinet and saxophone.
It is very important for both students to view this video with their family in order to properly take care of their clarinet.
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Although, this video is using the saxophone, cork grease is also important for clarinet players.
Clarinet players have cork in several part of the clarinet, including the mouthpiece and tenons.
Mr. Barnard will review how to use cork grease in our first lessons.
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In this video, students will learn how to properly put together the whole clarinet. Pay close attention on how to hold each part of the clarinet when assembling the instrument. Make sure to not bend the bridge key! Mr. Barnard will also go over this part very carefully.
It's important that students view this video with the family in order to make sure they are properly handling and taking care of their clarinet.
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In this video, students will learn how to properly hold their clarinet, proper playing position, and home keys of the clarinet.
Students should review this video in order to make sure they are holding their clarinet in proper playing position.
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In this video, students will learn how to tongue on the clarinet, using the "Tah" or "Tee" tonguing style.
Make sure just to take in the correct amount of mouthpiece in the mouth so that you don't pinch off your sound (too little) or squeek/squak (too much).
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge, introduces E, D, and C on clarinet. Make sure that you are covering the rings so that you are covering your tone holes in order to play your notes.
Students should review this video as needed.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the first 5 notes on the clarinet and it's 5-note scale, C,D,E,F,G.
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In this video, students will learn how to have good posture and breathe correctly in order to support playing any wind instrument.
Students should practice both posture and breathing regularly in order to play with a better sound on their instrument.
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This video demonstrates how to use your clarinet swab when cleaning the clarinet. Make sure that your swab does not bunch up when going through the bell of your clarinet.
If your swab ever gets stuck, bring it to Mr. Barnard to help get it out without damaging your clarinet.
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In this video, you will learn how to periodically clean and sanitize your clarinet. MAKE SURE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO WITH AN ADULT AND DO NOT TRY TO DO DEEP CLEAN YOUR CLARINET ON YOUR OWN!
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In this video, Ms. Douglass demonstrates how to play "Hot Cross Buns", using E, D, and C.
Try to match and play along with her by ear.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge, demonstrates how to play "Mary Had A Little Lamb", on clarinet.
Please note that he is having you try this by ear instead of using printed music. This is a very important skill to have as well as reading music.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Pierrot" on clarinet, also known as "Au Claire de la Lune."
Again, Dr. Selfridge is having you use your ear in order to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Jingle Bells" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their first five notes on clarinet, C, D, E, F, & G, in order to be able to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "The Dreidel Song" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their first five notes on clarinet, C, D, E, F, & G, in order to be able to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge teaches you how to play the song, "Baby Shark," on clarinet.
Also note, he talks about transposing this tune into the key of G as well as the key of F. Very cool!
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In this video, students will learn how to play the song, "Jolly Old St. Nick" on clarinet.
Students will need to learn their high A in order to play this song.
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Students will learn how to play the tune, "Good King Wenceslas" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their high A and Bb in order to play the whole song.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the tune, "Fight Song" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their first five notes on clarinet, C, D, E, F, & G, in order to be able to play this tune.
Click here for the play-a-long track.
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In this video you will learn how to play the song, "Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd.
Students will ned to play up C, D, E, F, G, A on the clarinet in order to play this part of the tune.
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In this video, students will learn how to play "All About That Bass" on clarinet.
Students will learn their low Bb and A below C.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the tune, "Havana" on clarinet.
Students will need to learn the A natural minor scale in order to be able to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the tune, "Despacito" on clarinet.
Students will need to learn low C# and low D# in order to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play higher notes over "the break" on clarinet.
Don't get frustrated if you are not getting your notes out right away. Make sure you are cover your holes/rings to help you get the correct sound.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Last Christmas" on clarinet.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the song, "Do You Want To Build A Snowman" from Frozen.
Students will need to know their higher C in order to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Star Wars" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their higher C in order to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Pink Panther" on clarinet.
Students will need to know some higher notes, including high C# as will as some lower sharps and flats.
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Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the tune, "Stay With Me" on clarinet.
Students will need to learn some notes over the break of the clarinet in order to play their higher B, C, D.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge will demonstrate how to play the song "Blank Space" on clarinet.
Students will need to learn their higher B natural in order to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the tune, "Shake It Off" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their higher B & D in order to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the tune, "See You Again" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their higher notes, B, C, D, & E in order to play this tune.
Click here for play-a-long track.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Cheap Thrills" on clarinet.
Students will also learn about creating harmony and this song would be a great tune to play with friends or recreate using GarageBand.
Students will need to learn their higher notes, B, C, D, in order to play this tune.
Click here to hear Dr. Selfridge play the whole tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Uptown Funk" on clarinet.
Students will need to know their higher E in order to play this tune.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "Old Town Road" on clarinet.
Students will learn this tune in Bb minor so there will be some new flats to learn on clarinet.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how you can play Ozzy Osborne's "Crazy Train," as a duet with a friend.
Please note the alternate Bb fingering used to make it easier to play smoother.
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In this video, Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the theme song to "Jurassic Park," on clarinet.
This is a great tune to learn since it works on both your low and higher registers.
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For all you Billie Eilish fans! Here is bad guy for the clarinet.
A great way to learn how to play your G#'s.
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The trickiest part of this tutorial is the rhythms and tonguing! However, this is in a very comfortable range for clarinet.
Please note to work on this slowly first and work up the tempo gradually.
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In this video students can learn how to play "Butter" by BTS.
Students will need to know the note, Ab and will also need to play low and high Bb.
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In this video Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto.
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In this video Dr. Selfridge demonstrates how to play the theme from the movie "Up."
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The video links below are not necessarily tutorials, but are fun songs to learn on your instrument. Some of them can be a challenge, so make sure you have your fingering chart available and use the pause button on your device to help you learn any new notes or fingerings. The main objective here is to find something you would like to learn and enjoy playing on your instrument.
CLICK HERE to go to the Clarified Youtube Channel, which is loaded with fun music specifically for clarinet.
Born in Crailsheim, Sabine Meyer studied with Otto Hermann in Stuttgart and Hans Deinzer in Hanover, then embarked on a career as an orchestral musician and became member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. This was followed by an engagement as solo clarinettist at the Berlin Philharmonic which she abandoned, as she was more and more in demand as a soloist. For almost a quarter of a century, numerous concerts and broadcast engagements led her to all musical centres of Europe as well as to Brazil, Israel, Canada, Africa and Australia, and, for twenty years, equally regularly to Japan and the USA.
Sabine Meyer has been a much-celebrated soloist with more than three hundred orchestras internationally. She has given guest performances with all the top-level orchestras in Germany and has been engaged by the world’s leading orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Orchestra of Suisse Romande, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Orchestras of Vienna, Basel, Warsaw, Prague and Budapest as well as numerous additional ensembles.
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Clarinetist, conductor and Sony Classical recording artist, Martin Fröst is known for pushing musical boundaries and has been described by the New York Times as having “a virtuosity and a musicianship unsurpassed by any clarinettist.
Fröst has appeared with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, Philharmonia Orchestra and Orchestre National de France. In 2016/17, he will make his debuts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Osmo Vänskä) and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (Edo de Waart). He also returns to the Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival (Paavo Järvi), NHK Symphony Orchestra (David Zinman) and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with whom he will also tour Europe.
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Julian Bliss is one of the world’s finest clarinettists, excelling as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, jazz artist, and masterclass leader. As co-creator of his Conn-Selmer range of affordable clarinets under the Leblanc brand, he has inspired a generation of young players and introduced a substantial new audience to his instrument. Julian started playing the clarinet aged four and went on to study in the United States at the University of Indiana and in Germany under Sabine Meyer, turning professional aged just twelve.
In recital and chamber music he has played at most of the world’s leading festivals and halls, including Gstaad, New York’s Lincoln Center, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Verbier and London’s Wigmore Hal. As a soloist, he has appeared with a wide range of international orchestras, including the Auckland Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Paris, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sao Paolo Symphony and the Queensland Symphony.
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Larry Combs is an American clarinetist. His principal teachers were Stanley Hasty at the Eastman School of Music and Leon Russianoff in New York. He played clarinet with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the Santa Fe Opera before joining the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1974. He was appointed principal clarinet of the CSO by Sir Georg Solti in 1978. He has appeared as a soloist with the orchestra on many occasions.
He will retired from the CSO following the 2007-2008 season to spend more time teaching clarinet students at DePaul University. He is also a founding member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians. He has performed the Brahms Trio in A minor with Daniel Barenboim and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and has appeared at the Ravinia Festival with its music director, Christoph Eschenbach. Other appearances have been with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Smithsonian Chamber Players.
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Ricardo Morales is the principal clarinetist for the Philidelphia Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist for many orchestras around the world.
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Benny Goodman, was a very popular jazz clarinetist and big band leader from the 1930's to 1960's. He also is noted as the first band leader that integrated musicians from multiple races with his Benny Goodman Quartet.
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Immensely popular and startlingly innovative, Artie Shaw rose to prominence in the 1930s as a swing bandleader, master clarinetist, and boundary-crossing artist, who infused jazz with the influences of modern European composers.
He was often compared to his rival, Benny Goodman as the "King of Swing" and was well known as being a perfectionist and a critic of the music industry. Shaw eventually stopped playing in the 1950's, but was well known for many years after his career through his music, played by other big bands.
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Anat Cohen is one of the most popular jazz clarinetists of today. Anat was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and raised into a musical family. She attended the Tel Aviv School for the Arts, the "Thelma Yellin" High School for the Arts and the Jaffa Music Conservatory. Anat began clarinet studies at age 12 and played jazz on clarinet for the first time in the Jaffa Conservatory’s Dixieland band. At 16, she joined the school’s big band and learned to play the tenor saxophone; it was this same year that Anat entered the prestigious Thelma Yellin school, where she majored in jazz. After graduation, she discharged her mandatory Israeli military service duty from 1993-95, playing tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air Force band.
She attended the Berklee School of Music and shortly after toured with the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, an all female big band lead by Sherrie Maricle. She has explored various ethnic music in the jazz setting and is well-noted for incorporating world music into the jazz genre.
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Born in Havana, Cuba, Paquito performed at age 10 with the National Theater Orchestra, studied at the Havana Conservatory of Music, and at 17, became a featured soloist with the Cuban National Symphony. As a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, he directed that group for two years, while at the same time playing both the clarinet and saxophone with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. He eventually went on to premiere several works by notable Cuban composers with the same orchestra. Additionally, he was a founding member and co-director of the innovative musical ensemble Irakere. With its explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music never before heard, Irakere toured extensively throughout America and Europe, received several GRAMMY nominations (1979, 1980), and a GRAMMY (1979).
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The late Mel Tormé said, "Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic." The New York Times pronounced a concert of Ken's "Goodman Straight Up,With A Twist Of Lightning." These quotes only hint at Ken Peplowski's virtuosity - not only is he an outstanding clarinetist and saxophone player, but he's also a charismatic entertainer who has been delighting audiences for over 30 years with his warmth,wit, and musicianship.
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Sidney Bechet was the first important jazz soloist on records in history (beating Louis Armstrong by a few months). A brilliant soprano saxophonist and clarinetist with a wide vibrato that listeners either loved or hated, Bechet’s style did not evolve much through the years but he never lost his enthusiasm or creativity. A master at both individual and collective improvisation within the genre of New Orleans jazz, Bechet was such a dominant player that trumpeters found it very difficult to play with him. Bechet wanted to play lead and it was up to the other horns to stay out of his way.
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Donald Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer.
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