Clarinet Sectional

The Clarinet Sectional is an opportunity to gather your clarinet section together and play through and correct any section issues in the music. Often, the Clarinet Section Leader calls the sectional and conducts or runs the rehearsal.

However, if you are not a section leader, you can always say to your stand partner, “why don’t we get together and play through this part of the music?” Or, if you are a second or third clarinetist, get a short 2nd or 3rd clarinet sectional going.

FOCUS ON THESE MUSICAL ITEMS DURING SECTIONALS

1. Tuning

2. Starting together

3. Stopping together

4. Playing rhythms together

5. Playing dynamics together

6. Balancing the section (who plays loudest and why)

7. Playing together as a team and a group of individuals

In understanding how to run your sectional, please read through the Clarinet-Now.com Clarinet Section Leader page as well as Clarinet Leadership. Knowing who the leaders are, how they should work and what you have to do to get a Section Leader position will give you some personal goals.

In a nutshell, if you really wish to become a Clarinet Section Leader and run the sectional, start practicing right NOW. In music, if you wish to get to a position of authority, the MOST COMMON way of doing this is by winning a 1st chair spot. After that, you are not just 1st chair, you are a leader of probably the largest section of the band.



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