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What are your favorite podcasts?
Hi everyone, Heather here 😊 This week, I'd love to hear about your favorite podcasts, whether they are directly music/clarinet related or not! Sometimes a podcast can provide us with inspiration for…
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Left Hand Dexterity Challenge: Week Two
Welcome to Week Two! This week we add a new layer: incorporating left-hand exercises with crossing the break. That shift between registers is something we’re all familiar with,…
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Why did you choose the clarinet?
Did you choose to play the clarinet? Or does it sometimes feel like the clarinet chose you? We all have a story of how we came to be clarinet players. How did you discover the clarinet and what about…
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The Left Hand Dexterity Challenge: Information and Sign Up!
Hi everyone, Heather here 😊 This October in the community we're going to be working on our left hand dexterity. It's really important to spend some time isolating our left hand:…
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Files?
Hi, I am watching "Pinky Finger Strength and Skill" and I cannot find the files that Kimberly refers to in the video. Where can I find these files and others that may be referred to in other courses…
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Weber, Concerto No. 1 (Second Movement)
Hi everyone! Heather here. We're back with some more of Weber's First Concerto, this time the second movement. Download the PDF above for the two excerpts I'm going to be looking at (because this…
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Study Intensive: Cavallini Etude No. 2 (Info and Sign up!)
It is my goal in the community to give you opportunities to practice and get feedback on all the materials that make a good clarinetist: we have our monthly technical challenges,…
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What piece do you hate?
Hate is probably too strong a word, but, it’s time to be honest: what piece for our instrument have you always disliked, loathed, abhorred, detested… Maybe it’s because there was a technical…
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Left Hand Dexterity Challenge: Week One!
Welcome to Week One of our Left-Hand Dexterity Challenge! This month we’re taking a close look at the left hand. I’ve been thinking that “challenge” isn’t quite the right word here — it’s really more…
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29Oct
Bass Clarinet: Fundamentals, Improvements, Challenges (rescheduled time!)
Wed Oct 29 at 8 PM - 9 PM CET1 going -
22Oct
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Welcome to the tonebase Clarinet Community!
Hey everyone - this is Martin from tonebase! As the Head of Live and Community here on tonebase, it's such a pleasure to welcome you to the tonebase community.…
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Hit Those High Notes - Week One!
Hi everyone! Welcome to Week One of our High Notes intensive - if you've yet to hit that high C, maybe this is the week you'll do it, and if you're already up there,…
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Low Register Speed Challenge: Final Week!
Hi everyone! You made it to the final week of the challenge, congratulations! This last week the job is to go back and work on all six of the exercises,…
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1Jul
Practice Smarter: How to be your own Clarinet Teacher
Tue Jul 1 at 8 PM - 9 PM CESThttps://app.tonebase.co/clarinet/live/player/clt-be-your-own-teacher1 going -
Weber, Concerto No. 1 (F minor): First movement
Hello everyone - Welcome back to the Repertoire Study Group! This week we're looking at the first movement of Weber's first clarinet concerto - I thought that this piece was too big and too important…
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Low Register Speed Challenge: Week Three
Hi everyone, Heather here, as usual :) Welcome to Week Three of our Low Register Speed Challenge! This week we are working on Exercises 5 and 6 from our PDF.…
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Does your clarinet have a name?
Hey everyone, Heather here 😊 This week, I want to hear about someone very important in your musical life: your clarinet. For many of us, it’s more than just an instrument.…
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Low Register Speed Challenge: Week Two!
Hi everyone, Heather here :) Welcome to Week Two of our Low Register Speed Challenge! This week we are working on Exercises 3 and 4 from our PDF. You might now be getting a better sense of what…
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What is your dream clarinet purchase?
If money were no object, what would you spend it on to improve or grow your clarinet collection? A bass clarinet? A particularly fancy model of Bb clarinet?…
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Crusell, Concerto No. 3
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775–1838) was a Swedish-Finnish clarinet virtuoso and one of the most significant Finnish-born composers before Sibelius. He spent most of his career in Stockholm (as…
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17Sep
September Community Meetup
Wed Sep 17 at 8 PM - 9 PM CESThttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88372513338?pwd=uaZAcTHMei3iy8TsGfXAF8hrvwbZ7r.11 going -
Low Register Speed Challenge: Week One
Hi everyone! Welcome to the first week of the challenge. The PDF for the whole challenge is above, and this week we are working on exercises 1+2. The trick with all of these,…
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Arthur Benjamin - Le Tombeau de Ravel
Hi everyone! This week's excerpts are from Arthur Benjamin's Le Tombeau de Ravel. I love the graceful quirkiness of this piece, which suits the clarinet so well, but is is a very challenging piece.…
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1Sep
How to start a sound “from nothing”
Mon Sep 1 at 8 PM - 9 PM CESThttps://app.tonebase.co/clarinet/live/player/clt-how-to-start-from-nothing3 going