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