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Perfect resources for staying up-to-date with current news and all things clarinet in the professional clarinet world, with many resources to link to: The Clarinet Journal, free music downloads, research, and ideas related to both clarinet teachers and performers. Check this often!

Provides great ideas for teaching clarinet technique to beginners and possibly to intermediate students. Ideas could be use with other woodwind instruments.

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

This is a site that I use frequently. Not only does the site provide useful information regarding musical ensembles and private instructors for those who live within the institute's service region, but it also serves as a resource for videos and recordings of professional clarinet players students may use as models. Furthermore, the site contains a variety of sheet music for all band and orchestra instruments. Sheet music may be downloaded from the site, or entire libraries may be purchased on a CD containing pdf files. This site makes access to solo and other forms of music literature a breeze! 

This is part of a video series showing beginning instruction on each instrument. This is a great video to share with students (and parents) to help them out in the first few lessons. Some information needs to be explained more completely, but this provides good basic knowledge and helps students remember what was taught during lessons.

This is an interactive website focused on clarinet fingerings and tone tendencies. It can be used as a game to determine fingerings and tendency tones, or it can be used as a reference. It not only shows fingerings, but also note placement on a staff.

This is an interactive website focused on clarinet fingerings and tone tendencies. It can be used as a game to determine fingerings and tendency tones, or it can be used as a reference. It not only shows fingerings, but also note placement on a staff.

The Clarinet Institute web site is the most detailed educational resource for clarinet.  Users can find recordings, videos, and free sheet music to use for educational purposes.  Many etude books, method books, duets, ensemble compositions, and solo literature can be accessed here.  The videos and recordings offer a catalog of solo and chamber performances for students to listen to and watch.

This is a podcast designed to help band directors who are not clarinet players, or clarinet players looking for resources. It dives in the solving clarinet problems including tone, hand position, tonguing, and much, much more.

The International Clarinet Association offers articles in teaching clarinet and clarinet ensembles, provides information about conferences, youth competitions, and more.

The purpose of this website dedicated to all things clarinet is to provide convenient access to links to clarinet resources, competitions, ensembles, etc. It is of great benefit to the student clarinetist and educator alike as a compilation of clarinet resources.

This is a PDF file for clarinet fingerings. Along with showing the basic fingerings that are generally taught in beginning band, this PDF chart also shows the alternate fingerings that make clarinet playing more practical. This chart is particularly useful for teachers who may have a hard time remembering all of the alternate fingerings that would be useful for certain passages.

The website provides helpful information for assessing and diagnosing common mistakes on the clarinet. The author of this website offers useful advice for educators who may not understand the intricacies of teaching beginning clarinetists. This information would be most relevant for band directors and private studio teachers.