Klarinet Archive - Posting 000441.txt from 1999/06

From: Mark Thiel <thielm@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Bass Clarinet Fingering Excercises
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:53:28 -0400

Ken Wolman wrote:
>I've heard of someone also giving a shot to playing the Bach
Cello
>Suites on the bass. That is ALL bass clef. I would walk a mile
to hear
>that. I'd crawl two to be able to play one bar of it.

I thought EVERYONE gave the Bach a shot. Learning to read bass
clef is,
of course, good for you (the tenor works out to be just like usual
b.c. notation
with a couple more sharps). But those of us that are too lazy
and/or too old to
learn to transpose well take the easy way and buy the
transposition from Castle
Bass Clarinet Society ( http://www.new-music.org/clarinet.html ).

The range is great for a low C horn. Low Eb, however is a
half-step shy
of the bottom end of the 'Cello, so you have to fake it somehow.
A few parts
of III sound kind of dumb without the low concert C. I have a
device to get that
extra note which I use in the privacy of my own house; which is
fine since nobody
has ever asked me to play it anywhere else! The upper range is
not bad.
VI goes up to a 4-ledger A a couple times.

Mark Thiel

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