by Peter Moore

Peter's unique clarinet method can be used alongside any tutor book.  Standard clarinet tutor books only teach music.  They do not show you how to play the clarinet properly.  Many of them get the basics completely wrong. 

Parents asked us to help them to guide their children but they did not have any musical knowledge so we wrote this book to help them.

Playing the Clarinet is Easy! shows you how to play and teach the clarinet effortlessly and correctly with pages of photographs, many in full colour.

The normally accepted method of teaching the clarinet is seriously flawed.

If you have been using the standard tutor books they ALL suffer from the same faults.

1) NONE of them show you how to form or develop a good clarinet embouchure - the most important technique of all.

2) ALL of them show a "dumbed-down baby-talk" fingering method to start with.

3) ALL of them teach the bottom register to start - in some cases that is ALL they teach. .. We say - and prove - that this is the WORST way to teach or learn the clarinet.

4) NONE of them show you how to tongue correctly.

3) NONE of them show you how to hold the clarinet correctly

5) NONE of them show you how to change registers correctly from the beginning. Some of them do eventually show the correct fingering - BUT FAR TOO LATE.

6) All of them are guilty of creating a problem with "crossing the break"

7) NONE of them show you how to play the altissimo register easily.

8) ALL of them are guilty of making the clarinet difficult play.

We can promise you that, if you have the courage to follow our method, you will be utterly amazed at the results you can achieve. You will be playing smoothly and confidently from bottom E to Altissimo E or even G in weeks, NOT YEARS. "Crossing the break" is never a problem as "the break" doesn't exist in our method. Only in tutor books from the ark.

Unique advice on how to use those "pinkie keys". The clarinet has 4 keys for each little finger which can be very confusing. Readers have asked us how to use them - so we have added a new section devoted solely to little fingers.

No other tutor gives you so much REAL information on how to play the clarinet.

(An addendum is available to purchasors of the 1st edition - please email for details )

Click on the picture to see the full size page. This is an exercise in changing registers.

George Seamans was the clarinet tutor of Santaluces High School Band in Florida. He used our Clarinettist's Technique Doctor to help his students. Here is his email to us:

Dear Peter,

I am amazed at the fact that I can play the high register so easily. You are so correct in your method.

So that you understand: - I have been instructing high school students with no private instruction and very limited ability so that it was necessary to un-teach their habits while at the same time guiding them with your method. It has been successful in that they have grasped the concept with a few exceptions.

When they experience the ease of attaining high notes it should erase any doubts in their minds as to applying your approach with a more concentrated effort.

A friend of the band director teaches in a private elementary school and has asked me to work with his clarinet students. It will be a mixture of new and one year students........

With sincere thanks.

George