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Step 9 - Basic Swabbing (after every play)

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Step 9 - Basic Swabbing (after every play)

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After you have played your clarinet, watch this video.  Learn about:
- How to take the clarinet apart
- How to use your clarinet swab to keep your clarinet clean

- Wash your swab occasionally

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Clarinet Maintenance 101: Proper Cleaning and Swabbing | Backun Educator Series

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Step 5 - Embouchure: Using Your Mouth, Teeth, Cheek Muscles, Chin Muscles, and Lips

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Step 5 - Embouchure: Using Your Mouth, Teeth, Cheek Muscles, Chin Muscles, and Lips

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After your reed, mouthpiece, and barrel are together, watch this video. Learn about:
- The Band Face (embouchure)
- How to place your lips and teeth
- How to blow and make a sound
- Long Tone exercise

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Beginner Clarinet Lesson 2.2 - How to make a sound! (embouchure, band face, and first sound)

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Step 10 - How To Clean the Mouthpiece (once a week)

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Step 10 - How To Clean the Mouthpiece (once a week)

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- Use cold tap water
- Use white vinegar
- Use a soft cloth
- Soak the mouthpiece for 5 - 20  minutes. DO NOT soak the cork in the water!!
- Rinse with cool water and rub with soft cloth

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Keep your mouthpiece minty fresh with this sanitizer spray, sold at Music & Arts Center.

You can also spray your swab with this solution once or twice to kill bacteria and to keep it smelling fresh.

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After your clarinet is put together, watch this video.  Learn about:
- How to hold the clarinet
- Hand position
- Finger position

Key points:
- Left on top, right on bottom
- Right thumb under thumb rest on the back
- Left thumb on the circle key on the back
- 45 degree angle

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Clarinet Beginner Lesson 4 - How to Hold the Clarinet & Home Keys

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This tool is called a METRONOME. Musicians use it when they practice in order to improve their time.  You can buy one like the one in the picture from a music store. OR you can look up a free metronome.
Google: metronome
It comes up right at the top.

This one is also good: https://www.imusic-school.com/en/tools/online-metronome/

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Watch this video in Full Screen.  Practice playing your first three notes, E, D, C.

Key Points:
- Remember to use your "Band Face".
- Do not puff your cheeks.
- Cover the holes all of the way.
- Check to see whether you see the imprint of the hole on your finger.
- You can use these three notes to play the songs:
Hot Cross Buns
Mary Had A Little Lamb

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Beginner Clarinet Lesson - The First Three Notes

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Watch this video in Full Screen. Practice playing your first FIVE note - C, D, E, F, G
Here is a list of songs you can play with 5 notes:
Baby Shark
Jingle Bells
Dreydl, Dreydl (Dreidel, Dreidel)
Mary Had A Little Lamb

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You will need a box of Filed 2 1/2 strength Bb clarinet reeds.

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Always put your case flat on the floor with the label up.  Turn the case so that the clasps are facing you. Now you may open the case.

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Use cork grease to hydrate all of your corks (the brown parts).

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Watch this video before you do anything else!

Key Points:
- Put a generous amount and rub with fingers
- Put grease on all the corks to prevent damage!

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How to Properly Apply Cork Grease to a Clarinet

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Step 3 - Putting Together the Reed, Mouthpiece, Ligature, and Barrel

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Step 3 - Putting Together the Reed, Mouthpiece, Ligature, and Barrel

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Watch this video. Learn about:
- What is a reed?
- How to treat your reed
- How to soak your reed
- How to put your reed away
- How to put the reed on the mouthpiece

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Clarinet Beginner Lesson 2.1 - Assembling the Mouthpiece, Barrel, and Reed

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Step 4 - How To Put Together the Whole Clarinet

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Step 4 - How To Put Together the Whole Clarinet

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After you get a sound on your reed, mouthpiece, and barrel, watch this video.  Learn about:
- The parts of the clarinet
- How to put the whole clarinet together without hurting it
- How to hold the pieces so that you do not bend the silver keys

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Clarinet Beginner Lesson 3 - How to put together (assemble) the clarinet