Cultivating a Uniform Clarinet Section Sound

Senior Master Sergeant J. Blake Arrington, presenter

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

CONCEPT: Improve your clarinet section with proven methods for seating arrangement,
focused listening, and consistent pedagogical ideas.

1. Pedagogical Ideas:
a. Voicing: EEE
b. Embouchure: Firm enough to support and seal
c. Airflow: Focused airstream
2. Seating Arrangement
a. Principal on outside
--USAF Band
b. Principal in center
--President's Own Marine Band
3. Focused Listening
a. Shadowing the principal during unisons
b. Volume variations for different intervals
4. Musical Examples
a. On A Hymnsong of Philip Bliss, Holsinger
b. Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Chance