What advice do you have for players trying to create homogenous sound from B-flat to A? One of the more difficult aspects of playing clarinet is the ability to go “seamlessly” from the B-flat clarinet to the A clarinet without changing the character of the sound. Lawrie Bloom said, “I think you want to play them with as little change as possible if you are going back and forth constantly… How do I find the real voice of the bass and what’s different? There are things you can do on each instrument that you can’t do on the other, and that makes it exciting for me.” 1 Just what are those things? Bloom’s comments provide an excellent starting point to address some basic questions related to the A, E-flat and bass clarinet. When asked about playing bass clarinet, J.

Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.Ī panel discussion facilitated by Paula Corley, ICA Pedagogy Chair Not Like the Others: Playing strategies for A, E-flat and Bass Clarinet

Originally published in The Clarinet 47/3 (June 2020).

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