As a clarinet player myself, you should focus on embouchure and fingerings. Then you can go on and get high end equipment such as reeds, ligature, mouthpiece, etc.

I’m not sure if my clarinet teacher would be laughing or crying at this

You got this, Keep going!! I play the clarinet and the bass clarinet, i played the clarinet from 5th-8th grade, and now I play the bass clarinet, been playing it since freshman year…just keep practicing and you’ll get better! If you need any tips I can help as much as I can!

You just showed up in my recommended, and I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers. The quality of this video was top tier!

transpositions are very important to learning a family of instruments; I love transposition it makes things much easier down the line

As a clarinet player of 8 years this was hilarious (I play alto sax and flute too, transpositions are hard haha)

I mean, the soprano sax and clarinet are both Bb instruments, so there's another similarity. As a clarinetist, I find it hilarious when people try to just pick it up and play it. The embouchure is probably the funniest thing to see people figure out. Very firm, air is blown forward, no puffing of the cheeks, etc. Otherwise, the clarinet is literally the easiest thing to learn lol.

When you get a new clarinet make sure you use cork grease to grease the corks, it'll make it easier to put together. And if you didn't then make sure you soaked your reed, not soaking it can lead to squeaky or airy noise. Hope this helped

As a clarinet player myself, and funnily enough someone named Isaac, this was a very entertaining video to watch. I would Recommend practicing to get a consistent embouchure thus getting you closer to a consistent tone.

Was finished practice my clarinet and got on KZfaq for some inspiration and you short showed up, and now I watched some of your videos and am surprised that you don't have a lot subscribers. But your style and quality is very good, I like it a lot. ^^ Especially the experimenting with instruments part, that the same thing I love about music. Looking forward to more of those videos ^^

i really enjoy these kinds of videos and it amazes me that you haven’t pulled as much viewers as you should

The transposition threw me off so much too! You were not alone in your frustration.

3:12 sound like the first line of Autumn Leaves. I’m playing it in a jazz band, so I immediately recognized it.

Hey! Been playing clarinet for awhile and just wanted to point some things out. 1. Get a reed size and or a more trusted reed company more accommodating to you. I would recommend Rico and. 2-2.5 for beginners. 2. Make sure ALL fingers at all times are covering holes that will severely benefit you. 3. Make sure you have enough mouthpiece in your mouth but not enough to the point where you can’t play or squeak. And I don’t wanna make this too long so I’ll just add one more 4. Embouchure is SO important tight corners, fast steady air, and lowering your toughness is really going to help with those high notes. Have fun 👋😊

You got a good sound out of it impressively fast

Very nice, brother! I made the udu happy! :D

"This weird register key... and then things get confusing" had me dying 😂😂😂😂

Branford Moralisis🤣🤣🤣 Cool video👍👍👍

As a marching band member who is the only clarinet for my band this season and has played clarinet for about 2-3 years almost 4 i think, this hirts me so much 😅 we all gotta start somewhere Also i know this video was 5 months ago, but here are some tips, dont puff your cheeks out, have them stay in, make sure you dont have too much mouthpeice or too little, as for high notes more air the better same for low notes, its not that hard to pick up once you get the basis.

Imagine the reed that was already on the mouth piece was sucked on 💀 Also make sure to make good sounds to improve and beginners should focus on notes and fingering. Eventually embochure and other stuff. Me as a clarinet player would recommend vandorien reeds and put cork grease on the cork if it’s hard. I’ve had a barrel stuck once 💀 Also Amazon instruments aren’t good choices besides some exceptions. East rock isn’t that good because my classmate had a saxophone from eastrock that is blue. It was trash and costed more to repair. I would just rent for three months and wait for a year to decide to buy a clarinet

As a clairinet player this hurt to watch but good for you man, keep going

Register key goes up 12 notes not just octave (8 notes). Still, that makes the clarinet have one of the largest ranges of all instruments in an a band. Good luck on your quest. Been playing Clarinet since 1976 (grade school band and now in my community college) and it's been a blast to say the least. All I can say is, you can do it. :)

Hahaha love the frustration. I also play the clarinet, but I have a flute and I can’t play it. I feel like we’re the opposite with our instruments 😂❤

Buy some cork grease, that makes it easier to put together cause if you keep putting stress on the keys it could bend them

with this one, try and focus on embourchure (aka band face) and learning the first 6 notes (G, A, F, C, D, E) that can get you to almost play any song, then you can kinda move on to side trill keys and the register key, been a clarinetist since 6th grade right here, and these are my tips (don't forget to learn hot cross buns, that song is amazing for beginners, its just three notes)

I teach privately, so I have a thought about equipment. Something that might help, is trying out different mouthpieces and reeds. For people starting out who lean more towards jazz and color, I would recommend a Vandoren or D’addario mouthpiece that is fairly open like the D’addario x10E or X15E or the Vandoren M30, and I would match the reed brands with the mouthpiece. For ligature, I would probably start with the Bonade Inverted ligature or the Rovner Dark. I find it is better to switch off the original mouthpiece and ligature right away. You can mess around with other equipment over time. You can also Google “Clarinet Mouthpiece Comparison Chart” to weight different mouthpieces against each other. Vandoren and D’addario also make charts for reed strength suggestions for their mouthpieces.

Oh my god I just found this video! I'm all in! This is hilarious!

Why didn't you look up the sheet music for the soprano sax and play it with your clarinet? They are both Bflat instruments. Also, as a clarinet player this cracked me up! Love your enthousiasm for the instrument! I hope you learn some basics first like embouchure and fingering. It's a really fun instrument! The upper register is reached by pressing the little key above your left thumb, while also covering that thumbhole. It takes some practice, but you'll get the hang of it. Have fun!

Thank you, dear man, for this. Clarinet took me to Bass Clarinet, ContraBass clarinet to the oboe. O Thank you for the high notes ....love the ligature. You must be aware of the ligature

1:59 Brandford Morales? Its brandford Marsalis who played the Englishmen in New York saxophone solo. World famous jazz player!

im a clarinet player and i think that you should make your bottom lip not as soft so it sounds better. Also make sure your using the correct reed size to fit your embouchure and stuff. But your doing amazing keep working on it! Also for the high notes say "eeee" or "tiii/teee" it helps get them out and dont put in too much mouthpiece.

If you like Clarinet by the way, there's some lovely klezmer music for that instrument as well. Absolutely lovely sound

Hey I enjoyed this! I play clarinet and sax. Clarinet is ‘the unforgiving horn’ lol. You know that Englishman in New York actually features Branford Marsalis on soprano sax right? I hope you keep it up. Best wishes, an Englishman in England.

You should put cork grease to make it easier to put together

Also there is this plastic thing called a reed and it is very fragile and you can bend it easily and break it so be careful!

I’m currently in the process of wanting to learn the clarinet. But my parents won’t let me join band because they say I should’ve joined in middle school to get the fundamentals of it. But in my middle school you hardly learn anything. Now that I’m a high school junior my parents are telling me that. But my girlfriend and the band teacher say that they’ll teach me the fundamentals but my parents won’t listen and I’d really like to learn how to play the clarinet so I made it my mission for when I get out of high school I’m going to learn to play clarinet. My main thing is trying to find where I can get a clarinet. Idk where I can do that

I use to play this back in mid or high school I'm trying to save up for one again it's been years

So fun to watch!

as clarinet player this was hilarious e is the back button and front so two keys for e d is basically the same 3 fingerings and c is just for figerings and you don't really need the bottom buttons.

Bro this quality of video is amazing

Ay, im a clarinetists and I just wanna make sure that your tounging insted of blowing air and then stopping. Its hard tell but it'll help a huge bunch.

Pretty sure you mean Branford Marsalis and also he plays that solo on the soprano saxophone, not the clarinet. But good on you for picking up the clarinet, it's a beast

You have to show us your next step with the clarinet! 😄 Don't leave us here 😯

Btw, Just FYI , The Big Push (Rens old band) does a nice version of English man in New York live

Hey! Clarinet player for 15 years and tenor sax for 1 year now. Sax and clarinet are very similar but very different in so many ways. Sax embouchure is much easier to get a beautiful sound. Clarinet takes years to develop that. It's a very delicate instrument. Needs a lot of care and love. The fingering on the sax is also a bit easier (specially because you don't have to change the fingering when changing octaves), but it's very similar anyway. My advice is to focus on fingering first and get used to it so that you don't have to think about it. After that, train the embouchure. Try to think of having a ping pong ball on the mouth while saying "oooohhh" and throw warm/hot air if you want a more round sound or cold air if you want a more strident sound. Both have interesting uses, I'd recommend learning both (but this is later on). Ear as much good artists playing clarinet as you can so that you can understand how you want your sound to be and train that. Reeds, mouthpiece and ligature take a huge importance on this manner but you can find a lot of excellent information regarding that on the internet (that's what I did at least). Getting a legiere european cut can be nice option to study and learn as it lasts longer and you can focus only on fingering and embouchure. Good luck!!

Yea I could play pink panther on clarinet after 5 lessons including band :o) good luck! ❤😊

To any novice watching this, get a clarinet teacher as a first step. You'll develop some extremely bad habits and possible damage your clarinet by doing it this way. The most likely outcome will be giving up. You might consider this a comedy routine of things not to do though. (ps, there are instruction books also)

"we understand you have a dying animal on the premises.."

Found this video because I also bought a clarinet for no reason.

make sure to wet your reed before playing and it will be a lot easier to play

Imagine if squidward came to his house and started playing the clarinet 😂

Great video! I was looking for Eastrock clarinet videos and saw this. My 4th grade son is learning clarinet in school band. He has been renting but rent is like $30/ month ( they didn't recommend buying cheap clarinets online). So I actually wonder if this will work. What do you think?

As a clarinet player this eas beyond painful lol

I’m not thinking “ Why a Clarinet Isaac?” I am thinking “WHY ARE YOU NOT USING CORK GREESE, DID YOU BUY IT FROM A MUSIC SHOP and last but not least WHY ARE YOU THROWING IT AND SLAMMING IT?!?”

The fact I actually did this myself

Im sorry but I was dying laughing when his notes weren’t matching because the Bb clarinet is in a different key than everything else 😂😭

Can you image the look and size of a clarinet if it could play the full range of pitches in an orchestra. I mean one instrument playing the whole range from base notes up to soprano? It'd be a nightmare.😂

Bb clarinet is in the same key as soprano and tenor saxophone, but starts in concert D and not so straightforward fingerings. Surely would take weeks to get used to.

Fun fact of the day: First five notes in the minor scale is used in the song "I was made for lovin' you" by Kiss.

Issac the high f sharp note on clarinet is A

i would say start in the Bb scale then learn more scales

As a clarinetist i would say technique is the first thing to learn

As being a clarinet player for almost 3 years. Focus on fingering and put grease on the brown part of the clarinet to make it easier to put together.

Its interesting to see how musicians learn new instruments. we can be pretty arrogant!

Bought a clarinet today for no reason (apart from the fact it was £30 from a charity shop and have always wanted a woodwind instrument) so this has been fun to watch Although im not playing it until i get myself an unsucked reed...

I play the clarinet in a marching band, and I found the best way to learn how to play. The instrument was the first get down my fingerings and learn easy pieces like get like a beginner, clarinet book and it teaches you all the fingerings and it has you work on articulation and stuff like thatand I have gotten so much better and my sexual leader showed me how to do all that stuff so very thankful for her

It kind of sounded like you needed to soak your reed and also it takes a long time to get able to go up the register, I have been playing for 1 1/2 years and I still can't get to some notes. It just takes a lot of work and practice.

Learning clarinet was so weird for me LOL

Why is the reed already on the mouthpiece

I went from guitar piano to clarinet because im shy but sensitive

I think the clarinet sounds cool

#1 .... cork grease #2 .... then put together

Wow, I play clarinet and all I can tell you is that you are very advanced for a starter, the average starter would only be able to get horrible squeaks.

Im a percussionist, why am i watching this?

Bass clarinet next ‼️

Just a quick tip c sharp is d flat Just like a high c is b sharp

I wanna buy a clarinetttttt!

I'm surprised no one corrected him. It's Branford Marsalis- not Morales.

Sounds like a dry reed to me..!

You need to put corc grease

I wrestled with the clarinet for 8 years in elementary and high school. Now do it in a smelly, itchy, sweaty wool uniform ...that doesn't fit.

As a clarinet myself, we are weird

Is it ever to late to learn how to play an instrument or learn how to read music?

All I can say is Eddie Daniels

And if you put your mouth too high on your clarinet it squeaks and that is not how you play it

the high notes are hard to play as a beginner it took me like almost 2 years to completely master them….

Watching this before impulse buying a clarinet (guitar player)

u need cork grease bro

Moralis? Bro lol

7:30 his last words….

You sound very dry. Soak the reed. Also, cork grease can help with putting it together

My clarinets B flat

It would be best if you tried vibrato by saying Wa, Wa, Wa. That movement with your mouth will give you a more even vibrato If you practice it. Also work on tone first

Why a clarinet? SQUIDWARD

I play the clarinet and im younger than you and you didn't use cork grease!

notice that 6:31 that the tone was quite out of tune.

Bro I’m telling you, that c# has no buisness being so hard to play when you’re a beginner, it took me like 2 years to actually make a non airy sound

firstly isn't it just common sense on how to put a clarinet together and also who buys a clarinet off amazon

😂😂😂

This was hard to watch