Klarinet Archive - Posting 000447.txt from 1999/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Altissimo
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 18:49:06 -0400

Are you asking about "half-hole"ing as a technique for _playing_ altissimo
notes? When used at all, it's a technique for negotiating leaps _into_ the
altissimo register. Nobody I know routinely leaves the first finger in a
half-hole position once the note has been established. The basic altissimo
notes at least through high 'A' use an open LH 1st finger hole. Of course,
variants (like closed F and F#, E with three fingers and the G# palm key,
and a couple of substitute fingerings for 'G') are exceptions that close the
top hole completely, but half-holing isn't involved. It flattens the pitches
too far.

I wouldn't even consider trying to teach the technique I'm describing to 8th
graders at all in a band setting. I'd teach them the standard fingerings and
let them get comfortable with those. If any of them are studying advanced
literature with a private teacher, let the private teacher teach them to
slide the finger down when a passage in the music they're studying requires
it.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca Williams [mailto:rwilliams@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 2:14 PM
> To: Klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Altissimo
>
>
> I have 8th grade students that are about to learn notes above C for the
> first time. My question to you guys is as follows:
>
> When teaching them the fingerings, do you start with the half hole or do
> you teach first finger up and introduce the half hole concept later?
>
> We are going to approach the notes first by long tones to get them used
> to not biting for the high notes. I was just wondering if you thought I
> should go with half hole or not. The Highschoolers that I teach
> privately usually don't know half holing until I teach it to them. I
> had a student of All State quality that had never heard of the concept
> before!!! And he was a junior!
>
> Thanks in advance for you opinions!
>
> R. Williams
>
>
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