How to create a great clarinet tone

A brain dump of ideas as to what goes in to making a strong, clean, mellow clarinet tone.

Finally, chapters!

0:00 Introduction - Find your inspirations
0:45 Give it time - You need to build up your muscles (embouchure)
1:26 Air Velocity vs Resistance
1:55 The embouchure "shapes" sound
2:18 Use vowel sounds to help shape your embouchure (inside and out)
2:37 Focusing the air flow
3:44 About your cheeks
4:18 Sustain the airflow
4:47 Embouchure shape - it's not that complicated
6:25 Recap of the above - Getting the balance right
7:44 Buzzing the mouthpiece - pitching
8:24 Quick demo (yeah, I finally play a bit more here)


You can see a little bit more of what I get up to at: http://codednotes.com