Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 2001/06

From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Subj: Re: [kl] curved fingers
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:10:43 -0400

Stewart, I forgot to say that it is the repitition of the scale that
gets the fingers into the habit of working well together, and that
repitition is created by coming back up to the tonic, which is sort of a
"pivot" note on the top and the bottom.
Very recently, like in the past 3 weeks, I have been playing 1
octave scales over & over, mostly in the chalameau register, including
E, F#, Ab & A (the harder ones), making sure that I am completely
"happy" with the way they feel when I speed them up. For me, the result
has been that I am able to go to my jazz gig at night (I'm playing
downtown with a jazz trio now 3 nites a week), and when the band starts
playing at faster tempos or harder bebop tunes, I find myself being
able to "keep-up" better than I ever have in my life. If I hear a riff
in my mind that involves these "finger contortions" in the harder keys,
I am hitting my melodic passages much better. For me, practicing these
harder keys repetively in the chalameau register, gives me an
opportunity to concentrate harder on the the scale at hand & repeat it
more often.
When the band plays in A major, that means that I'm in B major (5
#'s), and all the work I did with my pinkies playing a repeated E scale
in the lower register, is still a significant portion B major,
(finger-wise) throughout the entire range of the clarinet. ANNIE

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