first clarinet track !

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2010/06/01 13:55:48 (permalink)

first clarinet track !

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I'm learning clarinet ! I've started writing really simple parts for it - this is my first attempt at a piece !
Kev
 
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    ohhey
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    Re:first clarinet track ! 2010/06/01 14:19:09 (permalink)
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    Hi
    I'm learning clarinet ! I've started writing really simple parts for it - this is my first attempt at a piece !
    Kev
     
    I played clarinet in high school. I didn't have a good horn and it was hard to get some notes clear. They seemed to wash out into just weak airy under pitch notes. I hope your horn is better then the one I had.  Never did write a song that needed a clarinet part so I just got rid of it.  However, I would like to have a sax again some day, that was a fun horn to play.  I'd like to try Baritone Sax to get that sound like the band "Morphine". Great little band, you should check them out.


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    Re:first clarinet track ! 2010/06/01 15:06:52 (permalink)
    Did you change the panning of the clarinet at some point? It's mixed so low I can hardly tell...

    Since you're just starting, I'll share my main complaint about recording clarinet players. Just about every one I've recorded has been unable to keep air from escaping from the sides of the lips. And then they ask me "what's that hissing sound on the recording?"

    I reply: "It's you. Your lips are hissing at the sides with escaping air. Can you try to avoid that?"

    "But I was taught that that was ok."

    "It might be ok in an ensemble or live, but it sounds like hissing on a recording" (personally, I don't think it's ok live...)

    "Can't you get rid of it with the computer"

    "How much money do you have" / "it's better if you get rid of it with your mouth" / "nope."

    And so on.  One of the only clarinet players I've encountered who don't hiss happens to also be a recording engineer so he knows how horrid it sounds when recorded.  And he absolutely hates all the other clarinetists who hiss.

    So here's a tip: Learn not to hiss when you play. (not that you do. I didn't notice any hissing.)

    Good on you for learning a new instrument!
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    kev11111111111111
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    Re:first clarinet track ! 2010/06/01 15:27:41 (permalink)
    whoops just realised this should be in the songs forum ! Ohhey - sorry to hear you didn't stick with it mate,believe me I've made some pretty scarey noises in the time I've been learning and I know its pretty disheartening when it squeaks or comes out thin or watever !
    tarsier
    lol I was worried reading your post until I read the end ! No I don't think theres much hissing on this recording thankfully,but it is something I defo do.Maybe this  is the way I'm holding the embouchure - I'm not sure lol,I could do wth lessons really !
    K
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