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All about Clarinets / Re: Do jazz players favour double lip?
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All about Clarinets / Re: Do jazz players favour double lip?
« on: October 31, 2022, 02:53:46 PM »Hi lydian. Welcome to the forum.Thanks. I guess it was bad form to come out swinging on my first post. But the reality is "almost never" rather than "almost always".
You hit the ground running with your first post!
Dave may have been traumatized by his middle school band director, but he's not "100%" wrong. Single lip vs. Double lip embouchure is simply a choice. It is not for me to say which one is better than the other. I prefer double lip as it feels more relaxed and open.
As a new clarinet player after 50 years on sax, I was perusing this forum, and the jazz sax double lip claim got me a little worked up. Other than that, loving the forum so far and slowly adapting to clarinet, which I have to play a lot in the 20s/30s dance band I joined recently. I'm getting by, but still have a lot to learn.
Looking forward to more discussion. I'll try to dial it back some in the future.
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All about Clarinets / Re: Do jazz players favour double lip?
« on: October 22, 2022, 05:47:29 PM »From looking at videos of traditional jazz saxophonists, they almost always have the double lip. Clarinet seems to be half and half.This is 100% wrong. Double lip is extremely rare in jazz saxophone. Of the hundreds of famous players I'm familiar with, I can count on one hand the ones who played double lip at some point, usually due to physical problems that left them no other choice. Regardless of what you think you're seeing, most have their teeth firmly planted on top of the mouthpiece because that's what works best.
When I was a young tyke in middle school, the band director considered double lipping a crime, so I've always had that mentality.
I would expect the proportion of double lip in the jazz clarinet to be higher than in sax simply because it's a little more mainstream, but still fairly rare.
I would recommend double lip only to the few players who may experience serious discomfort in spite of using patches.
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