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Clarinets are certainly lively instruments, aren’t they? I love my new Buffet E12F Bb. The whole mid-section comes alive when it’s a well padded high quality instrument. Thanks for a great video with good close up photography.
Omh Rhapsody in Blue isn't written for clarinet. It's written for orchestra with a piano. There are a couple things that make me not particularly fond of this video. First, voicing is 100, 000 times more important than finger technique. And second, the main reason it's more difficult to smear on bass clarinet is not the lack of open tone holes, but rather it's the length of the instrument. For any given fingering on the clarinet, the same fingering on the bass clarinet will take up twice the length. *And why does this matter?* Because resonance. Your oral cavity affects the resonance of the instrument and acts as an extension to the bore. If the length of the bore changes, so does the length of your oral cavity relative to the bore. This is why it's so ridiculously easy to bend the pitch on just your mouthpiece. I mean I can smear up the clarion register on a soprano clarinet by simply lifting all my fingers off the keys three at a time.
@@bradyschindler4199 I honestly don't know. Its a student clarinet from my local music store. I know my mouthpiece is Vandoren 5C and my reeds are Vandoren V21 3.5 and my ligature is offbrand.
I don’t even play a wind instrument, but wondered how this solo glissando was achieved. What an excellent demonstration! I learned something new today.
The irony is that the trombone is the best natural smear instrument, but it can't produce a continuous 2-octave smear. If you had a 24-position slide and an assistant to stand 12 feet away and push it in maybe. But that would require a slide more than 3x the length of a normal trombone slide. They are enough of a pain in the ass to maintain at normal length.
Literally me too. I’m a senior and I’ll be a music ed major next year so my band director is having me learn clarinet to prepare for woodwind classes. I’m contemplating how in the heck the clarinet I’m holding can make the sound that he made with his. 😂
@@allisoncombs7031 My mom had a music ed degree and was a band director for a while. Clarinet was her primary instrument, but I never heard her play Rhapsody. My dad taught 90% clarinet and the rest were saxophone or bass clarinet. Mom taught clarinet, flute, and even trumpet and trombone on occasion. She minored in violin in college, and it was the only class she didn't get all A's in. I have her violin now, and am I tempted to play it? HELL NO! I can barely play a 2-chord change on guitar. And I already have a sore neck from other things, no way am I touching that fiddle!
I teach clarinet. When I was in high school my band director said we would play the Rhapsody in Blue if I could learn the smear (an aside; most of the upper classmen didn't want to perform the piece as we felt it was beneath us - not serious enough). When we started to rehearse he was astounded that I could already do the smear (he figured that would be weeks away. He had shown me the finger "fanning" motion. I never told him that instead of hours, it took me 20min. (some more weeks to make it consistent). I've had the good fortune to teach some of my students how it's done. I annoy them by fanning "in" bottom to top, fanning alternating in/out, out/in. And mostly with voicing. One last mini-story. In 7th grade my son (now a college freshman) wanted to do the smear. I said I would help him. Big mistake! Soon that's all we heard at home and he drove his director and classmates crazy. Every once in a while we do some smear "offs" when he's home.
A great couple of stories and this (Earspasm) teacher is fun. I took lessons a half century ago and, after three years, I’m still not sure what his technique was. I think he must have like horns more than woodwinds. He was sooo boring. Smear offs …:)
im a young clarinetist and this really helped out a lot. the hardest part was the glissando. i am only in 6th grade so it was a little difficult but thank you so much for making this video.
Then switch to an Albert System clarinet, because this piece was NOT made for modern clarinets. It was made for Albert clarinets used in jazz. Albert System clarinets have simpler keywork, and at least 3 bare holes WITHOUT rings, that allows techniques to produce sounds like this with ease.
This video explained it so well! I've watched other videos and they didn't work so well for me. After watching this, I started practicing this today and got it down very well in the same day. So now I have this huge feeling of accomplishment and I'm having way too much fun with this
Very cool! As a cellist it's nice to know exactly how it works - and how hard my clarinetists have to work for that solo! I'd always heard it was complicated because you can't gliss "properly" on a clarinet, but no one really explained the smear to me before. Makes that solo even more awesome.
Nicely explained, and wonderful sound. Every time I see that all-black bass, though, I can't help but feel that you're going to cost me $10k+ sometime in the not-distant future.
I finally heard someone do it as good as me. Not bragging. I got a master in clarinet performance and even my professors couldn't do it. Love it dude. ❤😊
Lαni Bοhmοnt The proper voicing will prevent you from squeaking. Experiment with your tongue position. This video was absolutely useless to me when I was first learning how to smear because he puts way too much emphasis on sliding your fingers when in reality your fingers do just about 5% of the work. Keep your pitch as flat as possible the whole time (you have to experiment a lot to learn how to do this) while pulling your fingers of the holes. It's not so much about all these detailed finger movements he describes in the video; you basically just need to keep your fingers close to the holes in order to provide adequate resistance to the airflow. In fact, a smear can be done by simply lifting your fingers in succession.
OMG I''VE WANTED TO PLAY THIS FOR THE LAST 23 YEARS AND NOW I KNOW HOW thanks for sharing!!!! Like seriously. This video is amazing and it makes so much sense now.
probably the best explanation on RU-vid for this. it is worth mentioning that if you're having a lot of trouble playing this, you may need your instrument serviced and checked for leaks, the resistance caused by a break in tube like sliding your fingers off the keys can actually exploit leaks and cause squeaks. so if you're playing this and think you're doing everything right, check your instrument. particularly the trill keys.
Jazz saxophonist here playing a chart where the whole sax section ones the tune by playing this intro. This was so incredibly helpful and I was surprised I could actually pull this off with my limited clarinet chops!
Gershwin wrote it without the smear - it was originally chromatic. It was the clarinet player in the premier who came up with it in rehearsal. Gershwin heard and approved.
Thank you very much for satisfying a guitar player's curiosity. I fell in love with Gershwin as a kid (played classical piano) and have always wondered exactly how this was accomplished.
I have watched several Rhapsody videos now and yours is by far the most detailed and best explained. Thank you so much for sharing. It no longer is as scary as it was. Although I am still not sure I will ever be good enough to play it, but at least now I can try.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I was going to ask in another video but i felt like you had already gotten hundreds of more request before. Again thank you SOOOOO much
When I was learning to play bagpipes on a chanter I quickly learned about the slurs and doublings. A friend gave me a clarinet and it was the first thing I tried ... hopefully one day I'll be able to play that intro.
Bon Scott "seems" to play a smear on the bagpipe *drones* in the song "Long Way To The Top". I ran it by a friend who plays bagpipes and he realized that the smear is an electric guitar slide that fades into the pipe drones. Doing a smear on bagpipe drones would be some trick.
Was this intro actually composed by Gershwin. I was told that Gershwin heard the clarinet player warming up and this was part of his ritual and Gershwin borrowed it from him. Not certain of This story's validity but it sounds like music only a clarinetist would know was possible to play.
Well, I mean, yes. He put in the score, so he did indeed write it. If Mozart has arpeggios in his piece because his violinist inspired him to do so, it would still be Mozart.
I saw the St. Louis Symphony perform Rhapsody in Blue last night -- the clarinet solo was sublime! He added some schmear to the rest of the solo as well, not just the leading glissando. As the rest of the orchestra came in, I leaned over and told my wife, "OK, we can go now." The clarinet got a bigger ovation than the guest pianist when it was done. On another note, did you know there is a banjo part in RiB? You couldn't hear him (at least I couldn't), but you could see him.
I played the clarinet and bass clarinet from elementary through high school and loved it, and now my niece is starting to play clarinet and I couldn't be more excited to show her these awesome videos ❤️❤️❤️
My dad used to teach this to his students... but never taught it to me. I ended up switching to trombone and returning to reeds at age 40. I understand why this doesn't work on a bass clarinet, and why it's pretty difficult on a saxophone. Just to play the opening smear on "Yakkety Sax" I use a really soft reed and an open tip metal mouthpiece. What drives me nuts about that one is all the charts I have start that smear on an E, and listening to the record, he clearly starts it on a D. WTF. Anyway an old mystery solved. By the way, you really draw that smear waaaaay out and I like it that way. There are some very well known recordings where the clarinet not only misses the low note at the beginning, but rushes the whole thing. Might be possible to modify a bass clarinet with some sort of inserts below the pads to allow that pull-off. It's almost a guitar technique now that I know what it looks like.
There's a thing called half-valving (It's what it sounds like) that most piston-valved instruments can do. It gives us a "gliss" noise. (Woo hoo fellow euphonium player)
For bass clarinet, It is very possible. If you take it up an octave and use the altissimo to make a lip bend, you can get the same effect just lifting up Keys all together. It’s way out of normal range though for the high F at the end, but if you wanna get the gliss it’s mandatory.
I started practicing this in the 8th grade. We got a new band director the next year and in the marching show music, there was rhapsody in blue. He pulled me to his office and talked to me about how hard and frustrating it is gonna be. Little did he know, I already knew how to play it.😉
In high school the Wind Ensemble was lucky enough to have a professional clarinet player preform with us on a piece called Black Dog (i think it was originally a rock song?) Many of the patents didn't like it because it wasn't what they were used to. My private lessons on clarinet were with a gentleman who also played saxophone and he started to teach me about the smear technique (he called it a gliss though) It's been 7 years but I'm finally ready to get my chops back in shape and 'get good'
on a piece called Black Dog (i think it was originally a rock song?) - Led Zeppelin. My God, that had to be bad on clarinet. And best of luck, clarinet is a great and easy instrument to keep up with.
@@kylesheng2365 my point was encouraging the OP by explaining that an instrument price range doesn't start at 1000, or 1000 even isn't a median, unless you are professional. How did you help?
