Improving Your Clarinet Intonation with Drone Practice (ft. Yoonah Kim)

Learn how Yoonah Kim uses drone practice to help clarinetists hear pitch more clearly and build more reliable intonation.

Learn why limiting physical movement can improve phrasing and tone in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in this lesson segment with Andrew Marriner.

Learn how clarinetist Michael Wayne improves tone and resonance through simple exercises that refine the direction of your airflow and tongue position.

Learn to cross the clarinet break with ease in this tonebase course highlight from Kimberly Cole Luevano. Explore the left-hand roll technique, Jeanjean’s Vade Mecum exercises, and expert guidance to develop smooth, confident transitions between chalumeau and clarion registers.

Clarinetist Kilian Herold transforms scale practice into expressive artistry in his tonebase course The Beauty of Scales. Learn how awareness and sound quality elevate your technique.

Sharon Kam shows how subtle tongue position shifts transform tone and intonation.

In this lesson clip, legendary clarinetist Andrew Marriner discusses the importance of maintaining focus between phrases, and how our sound relates to phrasing.

Here, we will explore ways to learn the clarinet online, and how you can incorporate these methods into your practice routine to make the most progress on the clarinet.

Discover how Yoonah Kim brings the 2nd movement of Poulenc’s Clarinet Sonata (Romanza) to life with expressive phrasing and smooth throat-tone transitions, in this short featured lesson.

Clarinetist Anna Hashimoto reveals her approach to Saint-Saëns’ Clarinet Sonata, teaching how legato, line, and tone can transform your phrasing and resonance. Watch her tonebase lesson segment and follow along with the score.

The clarinet sonata is a versatile genre that encompasses a wide range of compositional approaches to the clarinet. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the most significant sonata repertoire to emerge for the clarinet.