MY LATEST VIDEOSIf you’re looking for tips and tricks on how to play and how to hold a french horn, then look no further! Our top 10 tips to playing the french horn will help kick-start your journey. They won’t make you an overnight sensation, but they will help you get on ...
The third string is tuned to a C, and the fourth string or top string of the ukulele is tuned to a G. Please note the above figure is a “top down” perspective of the ukulele, as if you were supporting it in your lap, ready to play. In this way, the bottom line of the ...
Position your tongue correctly in your mouth, let the air flow and let your tongue ride the wind (much like the reed of a woodwind instrument, like a clarinet). Play The Raspberry Method for Rolling Your Rs If the above step-by-step method fails to trill you, you may need to get chi...
Lately, if you’re a clarinetist, you probably already know who I am, but the clarinet world is a tiny world. I’m not known for the other stuff, but I do lots of things. One of the things I did recently was developing a system during COVID when I had more f...
"e on, Sasha," my father shouted, "Put the book down and get your clarinet(竖笛). We have to leave now if you don't want to miss class." Clarinet class? I thought to myself. 75. Yes, I would like to miss class. "ing!" 76. I got out of the bed and picked up my...
Well, I mean, I, yeah, I mean, I mean, group instruction is hard, but what skillful teachers who teach in groups understand is that there are some fundamental principles of doing whatever it is we're doing. You know, whether we're learning to hit a baseball or to play the violin o...
Dawson grew up in Detroit surrounded by a musical family. When her father put her on piano at age 7, she had already been playing harp for two years thanks to instruction from her godsister, the late jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby. In high school, she played clarinet in the school band,...
Have you ever had the feeling that you lived before? Have you experienced deja vu after visiting a new place? Have you met someone new and felt that you had known them your entire life? These are common indicators of reincarnation. If you find yourself obsessively attracted to a particular ...
You can feel that expression in this "Athens of the South" in the orchestral movements at the new Schermerhorn Symphony Center or in the rhythm of the clarinet of late at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. If perfect harmony can be achieved anywhere, Nashville has come nearest to it ...
When I enter Sakaiki, owner Fumito Fukuchi, wearing a gray newsboy cap turned backward, waves me to the bar. Seated next to me is a Swedish free-jazz clarinetist speaking English to a group of Japanese. I tell Fukuchi that Mr. OK Jazz sent me. He nods a welcome and serves me a ...