Share your performances with the clarinet community! 🎶✨

Head of Clarinet
Heather
updated 2 mths ago
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Dear tonebase clarinetists,

I've added a highly requested new category on the forum: a space where you can share videos of your performances with your fellow clarinetists! 🎶✨

Have you:

performed piece of solo repertoire?
performed in a new work with your concert band or orchestra?
played some exciting chamber music?
performed an improvisation you're proud of?
had a concert with your clarinet quartet or clarinet choir?

Anything goes! We love to cheer each other on here on the tonebase clarinet forums and it helps all of us to get to see each other play - so let's see your performances!

- Valina_Eckley
- 2 mths ago
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Awesome! Earlier this year my concert band performed Beyond the Breaking Tides by Christian Earl (he is a clarinet player himself and was in attendance). This was a fun one to play. And my band has grown from 20 people to 90 in a few months! I absolutely love playing in this group
- Head of Clarinet
  
  Heather
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  this is fantastic, Valina! And look at all those clarinets!! It sounds like it would have been super fun to play 🤩
- Valina_Eckley
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  we have 17 clarinets this next concert, at every skill level. And we don’t have chair assignments, we swap off parts per concert all the time. We like to give those who may want to try 1st an opportunity, and we have some incredibly talented players who like to sit back at third every now and then. Plus the directors are so much fun to play under.
- Luke
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  Ah, to have 90 people want to show up and rehearse! What a joy. It's a fun piece too. The triumphant ending is top notch.
- Luke
- 2 mths ago
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Here's a video of my band playing a little while back. The other clarinetist (and multi-instrumentalist) here is James Evans - highly recommend looking him up! This tune is an old blues number - the original recording features a young Sidney Bechet.
- Head of Clarinet
  
  Heather
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  this is amazing, you sound fantastic! I'd like to know about James Evans' clarinet here too, what is that?!
- Luke
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  He plays a standard Bb soprano, I believe that one is a Peter Eaton, but he's made a modified bell for it. He says it allows him to hear his sound better, and is particular useful in loud/festival environments.
- Valina_Eckley
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  I was just thinking about how incredible that curved bell is. This is a great performance! I love it.
- Head of Clarinet
- Heather
- 2 mths ago
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Okay, here's one from me! This is a performance of a new piece by a young Australian composer called Kate Milligan, for percussion, cello and bass clarinet from last year. She actually made an animated score (which you can see parts of reflected in the video) - it's a super atmospheric piece, which gradually gets busier and busier and then like a mirror fades back to exactly how it started. In the clarinet part, she uses a mix of really resonant low notes, some nice little melodies in the second register, and a few multiphonics for extra atmosphere (they sound a little bit like baby elephants). :)
- Luke
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  I love those baby elephants so much. What a soundscape this is.
- Valina_Eckley
  
  2 mths ago
  
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  that’s really cool. The multipphonics on a bass clarinet is such a unique sound. I loved your multiphonics course and am enjoying playing them for fun. It’s great to hear them in a performance
- Donald_Lurye
- 1 mth ago
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This is Michele Mangani's Theme for Clarinet arranged for clarinet choir. I transposed the basset clarinet part for bass (I don't have a bassett) and played the contrabass part an octave down on bass (I don't have a contra) wherever I had the range. Some of you may have seen this on Facebook, or my YouTube channel, Dr. Don and His Clarinets. I did this using the Acapella iPhone app. Enjoy!
- Valina_Eckley
  
  1 mth ago
  
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  ohhh this sounds beautiful. I’ve been wondering how to do this myself, so thank you for the app name!
- Donald_Lurye
  
  1 mth ago
  
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  thank you! Acapella is cheap and easy to master iPhone app. However, be careful with the volume setting on your phone, as you can encounter distortion, especially in the higher registers. You can add a little echo and reverb, but otherwise there isn't a lot of editing capability. The biggest drawback, is that when you record a track, if you splatter the last note, your only option is to redo the whole track. So Acapella is at times an exercise in being patient with yourself. But it's fun, and there are some brief YouTube tutorials on how to use it, including how to collaborate on a multi-window project with someone in a remote location.
- Valina_Eckley
  
  1 mth ago
  
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  ohhh thank you for the advice. I will have to play around with it

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