Welcome

Welcome to my studio website. I am Dr. Shawn Earle and my main goal as a clarinet teacher is for my students to achieve their personal best, gain skills to be lifelong music learners, and an appreciation for the clarinet. My studio website includes numerous blog posts on various aspects of clarinet artistry, repertoire and …

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The Benefits of Multi-tracking Tools by Aleah Fitzwater

I'm thrilled to share a post by Flutist Aleah Fitzwater on the benefits of multi-tracking. Her expertise on this subject and contribution is greatly appreciate and sure to improve your playing. The Benefits of Multi-tracking Tool https://unsplash.com/photos/o9Fg-XaW0iU Photo by Paul Pilarte Multi-tracking replicates an ensemble where you perform all of the parts. The process of …

Navigating Online Clarinet Advice

There are more clarinetists than ever sharing tips and ideas about playing clarinet online (including this website). It's truly wonderful that information about our art is so readily available and freely shared. However, because every clarinetist has individual philosophies and ideas about playing, there is a lot of conflicting information. This can be confusing for …

Practicing with a Pitch Drone

Practicing tuning with a pitch drone is one of the best ways to improve your intonation. Using a tuner is also important when practicing, however a tuner provides visual cues to indicate if you are sharp or flat. In rehearsal and performance the tuner won't be helpful and the ear will be the only guide. …

A Clarinet for Sale

I’m selling my A Clarinet to anyone who might be interested. It is a Yamaha Custom CSGH. It is in great condition, recently service, with Hamilton Plated Keys. If you are interested or would like more information, please contact me directly.

The Cross-Cultural Clarinet

I will be releasing my first album “The Cross-Cultural Clarinet” on January 20th 2020. It will be available on all streaming services. This album features works by Tawnie Olson, John Mayer, Robert Rosen, Derek Charke, Sandy Moore, and Elliot Weisgarber. Click here to read more about this recording The album features works influenced by different …

Regina Clarinet Choir

I am the director of the Regina Clarinet Choir. Intermediate and advanced clarinettists of all ages are welcome to join this ensemble. Information about rehearsal schedules and registering is available on the Regina Conservatory of Music website.

Resonance Fingerings

In my previous post, “How to Play with Beautiful Throat Tones”, I discussed how to improve the resonance and tone quality of throat tones. In this post I also outlined that throat tones have a weak tone quality because they only engage the top quarter of the clarinet with the rest of the lower tone holes …

How to Play with Beautiful Throat Tones

Throat tones have the weakest tone quality and projection on the clarinet. While other registers are dark, focused, and project well, throat tones are often airy, unfocused, lack projection, and out of tune. This area of the clarinet range encompasses all the notes between E4 and Bflat 4. Throat tones use the top quarter of …

Learning to Embrace the Clarinet Squeak!!!

Squeaking is often a dreaded feature of playing the clarinet. The acoustics of the clarinet make it overblow at every other interval (the first partial is a 12th). Other wind instruments, like the flute, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone, overblow at regular intervals (the first partial is an octave). This feature creates the dark tone colour …