Klarinet Archive - Posting 000806.txt from 1997/10

From: "Frederick S. Sterns" <fssterns@-----.net>
Subj: ...another dumb question!
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:17:18 -0400

...with apology for asking something rather trivial...but...

...would an experienced, professional ever "...be caught..." penciling
fingering cues above or below a rapid and complicated phrase where the
figure could be played smoothly only by changing options?

For example...on a bass clarinet...lots of notes on the very bottom [Eb, E,
F, F#, etc.] where the patterns change, if only slightly, from measure to
measure...

...or, would the use of such cues be viewed as the "sign of an amateur" who
needs to practice the repertoire more?

[Don't ask why I ask this question...I really can't give a logical answer.
It just sorta came up in conversation.] :-)

Fred S.