Playing the Clarinet

Description

This program spotlights David Bitelli, a multitalented musician who has worked with Elton John, Terence Trent D'Arby, and Joan Armatrading. He acquaints students with the parts of the Boehm-system B-flat clarinet and how to assemble them, selecting the best mouthpiece, fitting the reed, posture and breathing, embouchure, holding and blowing into the clarinet, tuning, fingering, notes and intervals, tonguing, the rudiments of reading music and keeping time, scales, how to improvise simple songs, and types of clarinets. The program concludes with a performance by Bitelli.

Runtime

90 min

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Date of Publication

[2012], c1991

Database

Films on Demand

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