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.