Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 2002/08

From: w8wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Abime Des Oiseaux Help
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 13:01:03 -0400

<><><> I wrote:
Does "long F#" mean long fingering or long duration? =A0 If duration,
which F# is it?

<><> Alexander=A0Brash wrote:
the whole note, the first one, before the E F Bb Eb etc

When I asked "which F#?", I meant: "Is it the 3rd leger line below the
staff, or the bottom space on the staff, or the top line on the staff,
or ....."? (I"m not familiar with the composition)

My thought was that, after holding your fingers motionless for a longer
duration (especially a 'long' pinkie fingering), your knuckle or muscles
are becoming 'locked' in place? If so, an exercise might be:

Play the entire sequence, starting half-a-dozen notes before the F#, as
a steady flow of 1/16 notes. If you can play them as a string of notes
with equal duration, but you can't play them as a whole note followed by
1/16ths, then you have something to focus your attention on --- namely,
relaxing your fingers a bit, or relaxing your entire wrist or arm, or
curving your fingers differently --- in order that you can start up
again on the 1/16ths without having to 'unlock' whatever is frozen.

Cheers and FWIW,
Bill

   
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