Concert band is starting up this year again for high school, and my band teacher gave me a really nice bass clarinet. The only problem is, the neck makes the mouth piece almost 100% horizontal, and the looseness of the mouthpiece and neck also make it fall.
Before when I played in middle school and as a freshmen, my bass clarinet neck make my mouthpiece point up, which worked well and is what I learned how to play.
I have been trying to play on this horizontal mouthpiece for maybe 30-60 minutes, and I can't play a low note or even a middle B w/o either angling my instrument almost completely below me, or working my way to the note from the middle.
I'm also seeing online when I search how to play bass clarinet, every single one of the players are playing with an angled mouthpiece.
I know this mouthpiece works, because before it was giving to me, a senior was using it and was pretty good too.
What do I do?
Before when I played in middle school and as a freshmen, my bass clarinet neck make my mouthpiece point up, which worked well and is what I learned how to play.
I have been trying to play on this horizontal mouthpiece for maybe 30-60 minutes, and I can't play a low note or even a middle B w/o either angling my instrument almost completely below me, or working my way to the note from the middle.
I'm also seeing online when I search how to play bass clarinet, every single one of the players are playing with an angled mouthpiece.
I know this mouthpiece works, because before it was giving to me, a senior was using it and was pretty good too.
What do I do?