Clarinet City

This new, expanded edition includes material for intermediate study - complex time signatures, faster rhythms, how to approach the altissimo register, and includes selected etudes from Bona's Rhythmical Articulation - edited with the developing clarinetist in mind.  So You Want To Play The Clarinet will now cover almost everything - from how to open the case to performing challenging etudes designed to prepare the clarinetist for advanced level literature.

Don't forget about Daily Workouts - a practical approach to scale technique without wasting valuable practice time!

Welcome and thanks for visiting Clarinet City.  The purpose of this site is educational.  On the Books tab you will find descriptions and purchasing information for Paula's books.  The Ask Paula tab is a question and answer forum.  Please submit your question by clicking on the email link.  On the Free Downloads tab you will find printer friendly copies of Paula's previous conference presentations which cover many topics associated with becoming a better clarinetist.  The Links and Events page will direct you to many places of interest to the aspiring clarinetist.

Paula Corley is one of only a few clarinetists in the US to be endorsed both by Buffet Crampon Clarinets and by Dansr (importers of Vandoren Reeds), for her expertise in clarinet pedagogy.  She is the chief educational advisor for whyvandoren.com and serves as editor for "Insights" - a quarterly web newsletter about teaching woodwinds.

Paula is a life-long educator having completed 19 years in secondary schools in the Dallas area.  During that time she developed her beginning clarinet method So You Want To Play The Clarinet. 

Paula has traveled extensively throughout the US making conference presentations in Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma and North Carolina. In 2003 Paula was a featured clinician for the prestigious Midwest International Band and Orchestra Conference.  She has made three presentations for TMEA; two for Oklahoma University's Clarinet Symposium and served on the faculty of the Indiana University Clarinet Teaching Workshop for eight years. 

Currently Paula lives in Wimberley, Texas -just southwest of Austin - in the Texas Hill Country where she continues to teach and perform.