Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2001/06

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] curved fingers
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:24:38 -0400

Anne,

I was working on the Klug scale repititions for a while. You play each
scale in 2 octoves. First you go from tonic to tonic, then you start on
second degree and go up and down 2 octaves from it, etc. I thought it was
helpful. But after reading your suggestions, I think I will try his scheme
in a descending pattern, and slowing taking care about the curve in the
fingers.

Glad you are playing jazz also. Where is "downtown?"

Stewart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Lenoir" <AnneLenoir@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] curved fingers

> 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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