How to create a great clarinet tone

A brain dump of ideas as to what goes in to making a strong, clean, mellow clarinet tone. Finally, chapters! 0:00 Introduction - Find your inspirations 0:45 Give it time - You need to build up your muscles (embouchure) 1:26 Air Velocity vs Resistance 1:55 The embouchure “shapes“ sound 2:18 Use vowel sounds to help shape your embouchure (inside and out) 2:37 Focusing the air flow 3:44 About your cheeks 4:18 Sustain the airflow 4:47 Embouchure shape - it’s not that complicated 6:25 Recap of the above - Getting the balance right 7:44 Buzzing the mouthpiece - pitching 8:24 Quick demo (yeah, I finally play a bit more here) You can see a little bit more of what I get up to at:
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