Resources for Clarinetist

Organizations/Information

• International Clarinet Association (ICA). (Join it! Read the magazine.)
• Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association (ASBOA).
• National Association for Music Education (NAfME).
• World Clarinet Alliance (WKA). (The K is for Klarinette, all you Euro-philes...)

Blogs/Forums

• Clarinet Cache. (Web version of the column in The Clarinet magazine.)
• The Clarinet Pages (at www.woodwind.org -- links to mailing lists in many languages)

Buying equipment, accessories, reeds etc.

• Woodwind & Brasswind
• Muncy Winds
• Amazon.com

Professional-level mouthpieces and barrels (Save your pennies! Buy something good.)

• David McClune mouthpieces
• James Pyne mouthpieces
• Backun clarinets and accessories

Buying music

• Van Cott Information Services, Inc. has an excellent selection of music, and delivers quickly, with a friendly, personal touch.
• Sheet Music Plus
• Amazon.com

Technical exercises and warm-ups

• A good warm-up routine from clarinetist Sean Osborn.
• Rober Spring's warm up routine. (Watch him talk about it on this YouTube video.)
• More good advice from Prof. Gregory Barrett about getting the fundamentals right.
• Carl Baermann's famous scales and exercises. Public domain material available for you to download as a .pdf file. (You need to know these scales. Period.)

Orchestral Excerpts

• Which ones should you study? Read this article from The Clarinet magazine.

Recommended Books

• The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing by David Pino.
• The Art of Clarinet Playing by Keith Stein.