Clarinet &

Bass Clarinet Music

Use this Fingering Chart to help you remember your notes!

Chart-Clarinet.pdf

Skip To My Lou

Helpful Hints:

-The first and second line start the same. Once you have mastered one, you know half the song!

-"B" ready! The right hand needs to be in place for low B. This is middle finger over middle hole.

-The eighth notes (or ti-ti) are faster. They fill the space of one quarter note (ta).

-The words are:

"Fly in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo (3 times)

Skip to my Lou my darlin'"

Clarinet - Skip To My Lou - Play-Along.webm

Skip To My Lou Play-Along

Oh Susanna

Helpful Hints:

-This song starts on a "pick-up". I count to three, then you come in on beat four.

-Words:

"Oh it rained all night the day I left. The weather it was dry. The sun so hot I froze to death. Susanna don't you cry"


Clarinet - Oh Susanna - Play-Along.webm

Oh Susanna Play-Along

William Tell Overture

Helpful Hints:

-This song starts on a "pick-up". I count to three, then you come in on beat four.

-There are lots of repeated C. Remember to use you "du" sound between the notes.

-Don't forget the rest!


Clarinet - William Tell - Play-Along.webm

William Tell Overture Play-Along

Hey-Ho

Helpful Hints:

-This song uses new note "low A". Please look at the fingering chart at the top of this page. Low A is thumb, one, two, three, one two. It should sound lower than any note we have learned so far.


Clarinet - Hey Ho - Play-Along.webm

Hey-Ho Play-Along

Frere Jacques

Helpful Hints:

-This song is "auto-practice". Each section repeats.

-Only play as fast as you can play the beginning of the second line.


Clarinet - Frere Jacques - Play-Along.webm

Frere Jacques Play-Along

When the Saints Go Marching

Helpful Hints:

-Not everyone plays the same part at the same time. Listen to play-along to hear how your part fits in with the rest of the band.

-Remember, a whole note (looks like an empty circle) gets four beats of sound.

-A quarter rest (looks like a lightening bolt), gets one beat of silence.

Alto Sax - Saints - Play-Along.webm

When the Saints Play-Along

Old MacDonald

Helpful Hints:

-Road-map of the song:

-Start at the beginning

-When you get to the repeat sign :|| go back to the beginning

-When the you get to the repeat sign :|| again, continue on

-The end of the song is "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits!"

-Not everyone plays the "Here an Oink, There an Oink, Everywhere an Oink, Oink". Watch the play-along to see where you fit in

Untitled: Apr 24, 2020 2:22 PM.webm

Old MacDonald Play-Along

Ode to Joy

-Not everyone plays the same part at the same time. Listen to the play-along to hear how your part fits in with the rest of the band.

-Repeated notes should be played quieter, as that is the supporting part of the song.

-This is one of Beethoven's most famous works! How do you know it?

Clarinet - Ode to Joy - Play-Along.webm

Ode to Joy Play-Along

Hard Rock Blues

Helpful Hints:

-Find the repeated patterns. Once you learn the first two measures, you know most of the song.

-Don't forget the rests!

Clarinet - HRB - Play-Along.webm

Hard Rock Blues Play-Along