Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2001/06
From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Subj: Re: [kl] curved fingers
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:59:53 -0400
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Stewart. about 2 or more years ago, I had a short-lived bout with
"fobble-fingers". For some reason, my fingers simply weren't working up
to par. Later on when I started teaching beginning clarinet students at
the music store, I noticed a phenominal improvement in my own fingering
as well as my students, because of the way I was teaching them to use
their fingers, starting on a thumb F, and descending, eventually playing
an F scale, then adding the low E key, and repeating that scale over and
over, with the metronome, making sure that the fingers are placed very
comfortably and happily.
I very quickly realized that this principle of playing scales
descending, also works for several other scales in the chalameau,
including G, A, Ab, F#, E, & chromatic. The reason I don't bother with
the break, at first, is for 2 reasons. First of all I believe that it is
important to concentrate on getting a beautiful tone in the lower
register first. This makes it easer to move on later. And secondly, the
finger positions are pretty much the same in the lower register as above
the break, so why bother with it (the break) while you are getting your
fingers to work right, and the pinkies right on the button? There's
plenty to concentrate on in the low register without becoming distracted
with a whole new can of worms right away. If your fingers start to work
beautifully together, why screw it up by going over the break and risk
being distracted by any number of new problems right away? Anyhow, this
is only my opinion. I'm sure that there are many different opinions
about fingers. I hope this wasn't too wordy. ANNIE
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From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
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Subject: [kl] curved fingers
Interested in any suggestions on learning to play with curved fingers,
especially pinkies. No one corrected my flat fingers in my youth, and now I
have quite a bit of facility, but I am running into limitations due to the
flatness. The pinkies are definitely feeble. But it's hard to change after
all this time. I try to be mindful of this issue, especially when playing
slow passages, and this helps. But I regress when playing rapidly.
Stewart Kiritz
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