Are you familiar with the famous Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue? It's a wonderful music composition featuring piano solo and jazz band, and was commissioned for bandleader Paul Whiteman. Nowadays, it's often performed with piano and orchestra (or piano and band), and it features a big, jazzy clarinet solo!​ The clarinet part is notable (and tricky!) for several reasons:​ -The clarinet solo literally opens the piece (hooray nerves) -It features a very difficult glissando that involves a mix of...

When we think of great clarinet tone, we often think of a sound that is full, resonant, and clear! Here is a video along with sheet music of exercises I use in my warm-ups for a great clarinet tone! I go over register slurs, and a chromatic scale full range exercise for a full, consistent clarinet tone. Click ​ here​ for the free sheet music exercises to go along with the video! Some tone tips to think about as you go through the video: - tongue position should be "ee" or "urr" (too...

The solo flute piece “Syrinx” by Claude Debussy is among the most famous pieces ever written for flute. It was one of the earliest romantic flute solos, as well as prominently featured in the opera Orpheus. The story of Syrinx is a tragic one, and greatly informs how the flutist performs it. This piece is definitely open to interpretation. I’ve seen someone choreograph it and dance while performing it on flute, play it completely out of time, play it with some tasteful extended techniques...