Clarinet Reeds: What Should Your Students Use? | Backun Educator Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- The Backun Educator Series presents Michelle Anderson, founder of Clarinet Mentors (www.clarinetmentors.com), in a series of videos designed specifically to help school band teachers to teach clarinet more easily and effectively. Many clarinetists do not play on reeds that support them in producing the best sound that they can. Often, they don't realize that they have outgrown their reed strength, and their high notes sound loud and squawky, or wimp out all together. This video gives you some clear guidelines as to what strength might be best for your clarinet students. Michelle also discusses some reed types that she likes and recommends for students.
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Michelle Anderson, a Backun Musical Services Artist, is a professional clarinetist and teacher in Vancouver, BC. She specializes in creating resources to help people to play the clarinet more easily and beautifully. Her company, Clarinet Mentors (www.clarinetmentors.com), and TH-cam channel ( / clarinetmentors , have helped thousands of clarinetists to discover systems to quickly improve their clarinet playing, and to enjoy the instrument more.
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I watch your videos and they answer my questions about reeds and ligatures in 2 seconds. Thank you.
Glad to help!
I started on a 2.5 and immediately switched to a 3. 3.5+ and 4 are my favorite strengths
DUDE. THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS. finally i know i have too soft of a reed. and here i am with a new mouthpiece
I didn't know that Michelle was a backun artist.
Nice to see her, thanks for the tips!
Thanks Rocco 22, I hope you enjoy these videos.
I now play 5's, they just work well with the way I approach the clarinet (I don't bite, I just like the backpressure), but I'd start someone on a super closed-faced mouthpiece like the M15 or M30, and using a 3 or 3½ strength reed, then letting them go from there.
I like all your videos very informative. I think a big topic that is overlooked is reed strenght to tip openning. If a student has a open mouthpiece and is told to use a hard reed 3.0 to 3.5 it may not be too effective. Likewise using a low 1.5 or 2 on a closed tip piece. Instructors should look at tip opening. Yes a 2.5 is generally ok but if a open tip, moving a student reed strenght up may not be as beneficial as recommending a more closed tip before going up....seen some weird mouthpieces with rentals.
I use a crystal mouthpiece medium opening and a 3 to 3.5 is ideal. 2.5 works but lower than 2.5 is too much vibration and 3.5 starts pushing it on the upper end. Also have a very open jazz mouthpiece (5JB) and ideal is 1.5 to 2.0. I use this for jazz, swing and dixieland.
So, I understand higher reed strenght when playing speeds up firming muscles and endurance is helps tremendously with endurance. However, it is key to stay within reed strenght to tip distance and a more closed mouthpiece may be suggested to continue increasing reed thickness. Many instructors dont even bother to look to see tip opening and just keep increasing reed strenght.
Just to point out Reginald Kell used reeds #2.5 and so does Karl Leister as far as I've read. Some Klezmer players like Giora Feidman use I think Vandoren Traditional #1.5. Mark Nuiccio use I think # 4.25 to 4.5 reeds so between 3-4 is not a fast rule although most players might be using something in that range.
I used to use Vandoren V-12 #3.5 for many years but then I tried some mouthpieces that I really like and I just got better result with #3.5+ so that's what I use today.
Great point Stefan! The best reed strength is "what works best with the setup you have, and they style of music you are playing". However, I do see many students having challenges because they are on the incorrect reed strength (usually too soft) and are not aware of it. Hopefully this gives their teachers some guidelines on what to look for to help them out.
I am so thankful for this video its just what i needed thank you for taking your time to take😁
Can you do a video on how to learn to tongue your reed demonstrating more and a video on getting use to playing on a harder reed?
Note, revisit this tips @4:00 about clarinet reeds 2.5 when playing high note, and high G use at least 3.0
As a student, I play on a 3.0 bravo synthetic reed. I commonly get comments like, “OmG IS tHAt a bLaCK rEeD?!!?”
Lol I've seen that
Good afternoon madam let me all is well I have one question am beginner but I was give a mini ABS clarinet does it sound the same way with other clarinet and may be some books to start with thnx alot
Vandoren teaches patience.
Dang I started on a 3
My band teacher made everyone buy the same brand reed and my clarinet coach told us to get the one that goes with our instrument
Both of those teachers are dumb.
pukalo [CDN] i mean well we are a 5A band
c.youtube I don't know what "5A band" means
pukalo [CDN] 5A is a high ranked band meaning really good and 6A is a really good band. Look it up
pukalo [CDN] in marching band