On saxophone, I’ve been using the voicing “flu” to start my tone. The F sound is for starting air, the LU is for retracting the tongue and the shape of the mouth.

As an adult learner returning to the clarinet, this session has been great. Too bad that you don't have more sessions on helping us returning adults reacquiring the lost skills.

Thank you for another great and informative video!

Excellent video, Jay. Super job!

Thanks!

Amazing -- most useful video ever!

Great lesson

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Thanks for the video - it is very helpful. Just at the moment I'm facing articulation challenges. I am a beginner and because I learned with the "wrong" articulation I have now problems doing clean attacks on (not even particualary) fast notes. I realised I'm not only touching the reed with my tongue but also go tongue to palate and completely blocking the air flow between the notes. It's hard for me to just touch the reed (like you show in the exercises around 14:30) because I seem not to have the fine motor control in the tongue to do just that - it feels like i would need support somewhere - like an artists need support for the hand (with a stick or something) that is controlling the paint brush while doing fine details. ;-) But I try and it happens what you said, that I loose my overall tongue shape too much, and now my overall tone looses quality. But I hope it will get better with your exercises. I also have an "palate only" attack which works surprisingly well on the throat tones and lower clarion register. Any use for that or should I get rid off it :D Actually like most other people, I guess, I am after an articulation that will ultimately work over all parts of the clarinet equally well.

Thanks for this excellent content. I've played clarinet on and off for almost 50 years (amateur) and unfortunatley I never learnt, or probably resisted touching the reed with my tongue. Instead I touch my lower lip with my tongue. It works but will never do fast staccato passages. Your instruction is excellent. I will try to break a long held habit, but my tongue feels like a sledge hammer hitting a tooth pick, it wants to flick over the end of the reed, it sounds all salivary, and Ive already damaged the tip of my current favourite reed. My question is, does tonguing properly affect reed life??

I am having a real struggle with articulating altissimo f# and g. I have no problem at all playing a g major (3 octaves) legato but when articulating the f# does not want to speak. I have been trying all kinds of things but have hit a brick wall. Any suggestions?

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Hello, excellent video and excellent exercises. I am a clarinet teacher and your videos give me excellent ideas for my classes. As for my playing, there's only one thing that drives me crazy: Sometimes when I'm playing a long piece of music with a lot of articulations in all registers I can't stop the saliva from getting between the reed and the mouthpiece. I fix it as soon as I can but often there is no time to fix it while you are playing and the sound of saliva in the mouthpiece is very annoying. Any idea of ​​the cause or reason for this and how to fix it? Thanks in advance

I'm having trouble in my articulation. Particularly when im trying to articulate the altissimo register, it kinda sound pale and it won't sound quickly and equally as i play the note longer or they somehow sound undertone or the whizzy and flat. I'm using a v12 2.5 right now

Sir which company model clarinet do you use & model no plz

"No tongue! No tongue!" (Karl Leister teaching how to start a note with just the breath to avoid an "articulation sound".)

To add to meaning of the word articulation, it is completely misused in America. You you even have 5 slured notes, in Europe one would ask: how are these 5 notes articulated? They are slured. Or 2 staccato and 2 legate or whatever case may be.

'you're never going to play with your tongue on the reed in real life' Oscar Navarro in his 2nd concerto: 'hold my -beer- clarinet'

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