Teaching Handouts
Clarinet Maintenance
Deep Cleaning the Clarinet
Safely take apart your entire instrument, clean it, oil it, and put it back together again. An abbreviated version of this is published in the Clarinet Journal Online.
Basic Clarinet Maintenance
Keep your clarinet clean and in good working order through quick and simple daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.
Extended Techniques
Circular Breathing
A method for learning how to circular breathe beginning with the use of air only, then working up to successfully circular breathing on the clarinet.
Multiple Articulation
A method for learning how to use and develop multiple articulation, or double tonguing.
Voicing
Introduction to the Altissimo Register
Strategies and exercises to develop sound and response in the altissimo register of the clarinet.
Clarion Register Voicing Exercises
Exercises to develop sound and response in the clarion register of the clarinet.