Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 2007/09

From: Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] trill fingering
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:37:29 -0400

(same message with the typos corrected)

There are a few choices, but all of them have their drawbacks.

The most common way, if your clarinet permits it, is to finger the C# and
just use the bottom right side key. However, the resulting D# is flat.

The second most common way, is to play the C#, and trill to the D# using
the standard fingering. Coordination between lifting 2 fingers and adding
the side key (for the D#) will take practice to make it smooth.

A third, more interesting way to play the trill, which will only work if you
have adequate time, and the trill is isolated, is to play the C#, and WITH
THE FIRST FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND hold down the small pad between the E and
D. Then you can trill to D# by lifting the middle finger of the left hand.

Be careful not to drop the clarinet :-)

Glenn B Kantor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Kantor" <klarinet@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] trill fingering

> There are a few choices, but all of them have their drawbacks.
>
> The most common way, if you clarinet permits it, is to finger the C# and
> just use the bottom right side key. However, the resulting D# is flat.
>
> The second most common way, is to play the C#, and trill to the D# using
> the standard fingering. Coordination between lifting 2 fingers and adding
> the side key (for the D#) will take practice to make it smooth.
>
> A third, more interesting way to play the trill, which will only work if
> you have adequate time, and the trill is isolated, is to play the C#, and
> WITH THE FIRST FINGER OF THE RIGHT HAND hold down the small pad between
> the E and D. Then you can trill to D# but lifting the middle finger of
> the left hand.
>
> Be careful not to drop the clarinet :-)
>
> Glenn B Kantor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 4:01 PM
> Subject: [kl] trill fingering
>
>
>> In community band, we came across a trill that neither myself, nor my
>> fellow 1st chair clarinetist could figure out how to play elegantly.
>>
>> C# to D#. - this is 1 line below the staff C# (left hand). Any ideas?
>> The C# key overrides the Eb/D# key, so that to trill it seems I have
>> to alternate the two.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Curtis Bennett
>>
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>>
>

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