Klarinet Archive - Posting 000226.txt from 2004/06

From: Umar Goldeli <umar@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Crossing the break - guide/exercises/logic
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:36:04 -0400

Greetings Experienced Ones..

I have recently embarked upon my "clarinet journey" and have just met the
concept of "crossing the break" and the joys of finger contorsion.

I guess I should point out now that due to an accident some years ago -
the ulnar nerve of my right hand was severed and subsequently stitched
back together with microsurgery - and as nerve damage is not something
which heals perfectly - I am left with almost no feeling in my little
finger and less than perfect coordination in my right hand in general.

So amongst other things - clarinet is my long overdue rehab. Well.. that's
the theory anyhow.. so I understand that it will take my right hand
significantly longer to get its act together than it would take a normal
person to get the wiring between the concept, brain and the fingers worked
out.

So considering that it will likely be a while and quite a pain - I'd like
a "proper" method and set of exercises to follow for this.. are there any
such exercises to get the brain and fingers around the concepts of
prefingering right hand and pinkies etc etc? I've been looking around and
can't find anything which explains the logic and methodology as well as
exercises..

At this stage it is looking somewhat err.. "esoteric".. :)

How did everybody else do this? Is it just a matter of obscene amounts of
repetition - of for example second space A to third line B transitions and
then various combinations etc until it "just happens" or is there a set of
logical rules to follow and a methodology to boot etc?

Thanks in advance..

//umar.

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