Julie DeRoche Masterclass
(December 1998)
DePaul University School of Music
McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band Clarinet Section
- Posture
- Allows you to breath properly
- Allows you to think better and concentrate more
- Shoulders relaxed
- Back straight
- Hand Position
- Hands should be in a V shape as if looking through a telescope
- Embouchure
- Tongue in "Shhhhh" position
- Form embouchure around face
- Teeth line up (top and bottom)
- Open mouth as wide as one finger
- Pressure point is where reed rests on lip, where lip meets the skin
- Keep chin flat
- Round corners
- Top lip tight against teeth
- Seal from top down
- Tonguing
- Stop the reed, not the air.