![]() You should feel no difference in your embouchure between the low F and the C. If you feel yourself "clenching down" on your embouchure, you are playing incorrectly. Have someone come while you are playing the F and hold down the register key (so that the instrument goes up to a clarion C). A good exercize to demonstrate this is to play a low F. Don't "clamp down" when you get to the next register, because your tone will suffer, and it is easy to squeak this way. ![]() Players need to remember that when playing in the clarion register, they should keep their embouchure as free and open as the lower register. To review a low F, there are two ways: cover all holes plus either the top right fork key, or the center pinky key. To produce the next note, clarion C, finger a low F in conjunction with the register key.Finger all holes and either the bottom right fork key, or the left pinky key. To review a low E, there are two ways to produce this note. The next note, "B" is produced by fingering a low "E" and pressing the register key also.This key, pressed in conjunction with the "A" key, should produce a "B-flat." This is the end of the chalumeau register, and the last note before the break. For the next note, B-flat, finger the "A" but press at the same time the long key right above your left thumb.Pressing this key alone should produce an A. For this note, leave all keys unpressed except for the key right above where your left index finger should be. The first note we will learn is the middle A.The first necessary thing a clarinetist must do is to know the notes that straddle the break. The "break" is the end of the first register (called the chalumeau register) and the second register (called the clarion register). ![]() Crossing the break is a major step in a clarinetist's journey into accomplishing their instrument.
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