Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 2004/06

From: "Karin Berman" <berman@-----.ca>
Subj: RE: [kl] Crossing the break - guide/exercises/logic
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:16:35 -0400

Umar,
I am not an Experienced One at all, but I can tell you this, when I first
had to master "crossing the break" I literally threw myself down on the
ground many times and for me, it eased my frustration. But then, I am quite
a Mad One. I moaned an groaned loudly and wept too. And sweated a plenty. In
the end, repetition, practice and perseverance did the trick for me and by
now I have no trouble crossing that break. Also make sure you figure out the
alternative fingering for that "3rd line" B on the staff. I am sure some of
the Experienced Ones on this list will know of good exercises to give you.
In addition to usual scales and exercises in my clarinet book at the time, I
simply took on pieces that were beyond my abilities at that stage. Pieces
that forced me to just DO it and it and stretched my abilities in that
manner. It worked.
Hang in there buddy !
Karin Berman

Umar wrote:
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.

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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