Bass Clarinet Brian is a reclusive San Jose-based bass clarinet player. Bevies of journalists and paparazzi try their luck year after year, hoping for an interview, or even just one picture, taken by 1000mm telephoto lens. To no avail. Only one reporter ever managed to prevail, leading to Bass Clarinet Brian's only known response, verbatim: "I performed open-heart surgery on my dog at age 12. It's been touch and go ever since."
You sound great! I’m a cellist and electric bassist going into freshman year and I’m thinking about starting on clarinet/bass clarinet in the fall. Do you have any tips for learning the instrument as someone who has virtually no woodwind experience?
i recently switched from trombone to tuba (for marching this year) and i can say this is exactly how the tuba parts feel like half the time (we do get some cool stuff tho)
People be complaining but for reason i really like whole notes and half notes. They rub my brain with the way they relate to the melody. I have friends who play bass instruments and are thinking of quitting for this reason alone. I understand how it's boring but like my brain be tweeking or som
Wouldn’t know. I tried marching bass clarinet my senior year, but my director was like “Why? You can’t hear them on the field.” To this day, nearly 10 years later, I still think I should’ve countered with “Yeah? Well you can’t hear the woodwinds when the brass is playing either, yet here we are.”
