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Today is my busiest, cram-packed, most clarinetish day of the week. Not only do I teach a section of 7 bass clarinets before school (CPHS) but I also have thirteen students during the day. Well, today one of them knocked over my clarinet (it was even on a clarinet stand) and incurred damage that prevents [...]
Courtesy the teenagers who play bass clarinet at Cedar Park High School who I had the honor of spending my afternoon with:
I was scrounging through the folder of “stand tunes” — tunes a high school marching band plays whilst standing in the stands — and I came across Speak Up Mambo, which I mentioned [...]
Henry Middle School had the lawncare guys out mowing the lawn today when I walked up to teach today. I guess it caught nature off guard as well, because when I got inside and opened up my case, there was an inch-worm in my clarinet! There are no signs of infestation, and I’m figuring that [...]
Today I am surfing during my lunch hour, but with being self-employed, no one can stop me… eh-eh… but today I put on some music. It has been awhile since listening to my favorite clarinet CD on the first piece, Sonata in E-flat Major for clarinet and piano, op. 167 [...]
Wow, yesterday was a whirlwind of clarinet. Mondays are my most packed lesson-teaching days. I had intended to get more of the little stuff out of the way such as putting a couple of bills in the mail, buying a few things I need to make the lava lamp work right, but as it was [...]
Sometimes something happens that you just can’t wait to get home and blog about. This is one of those somethings. I’m also sure that about 100% of you reading this will not see it as blog-worthy. History: I am a semi-professional clarinetist making a living teaching private lessons and 2 years ago, I bought a [...]
Lessons
Yes, I finally have a lessons site for my clarinet kiddos! Isn’t it nice?! …and to think I did it all with the wimpy little pagewizards. Oh, to have a real piece of software. That’s on my TO BUY list, lemme tell you. The problem lies in finding something affordable for mac.
Well, [...]
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