Klarinet Archive - Posting 000271.txt from 2011/03

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet tremolo
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:10:19 -0400

Bb4 should be one note below the first leger line under the treble staff. D5
should be the fourth line of the treble staff. For those who read the
Clarinet BB, I'm using the reference graphic there to identify the octaves.
I'm not sure whether Randy meant those notes or not - Randy, maybe you can
either confirm these or describe which Bb and D you meant. In any case,
wherever the numbering system you use starts, Bb4 and D5 must be a tenth
apart, not a third.

Sorry, I don't know of a smooth way to make a meaningful tremolo between
those two notes. If it's an orchestral part, I'd look at the other clarinet
part or even the flute parts and see if there's a more practical way to
reassign the notes in the harmony so that tremolo becomes more do-able. I
asked who the composer is mostly out of amazement that anyone would ask for
this interval to be played as a tremolo.

Of course some of the other suggested solutions may well be correct if Randy
really meant two other notes than the ones I've identified with Bb4 and D5.
Bb5 (throat, third line) to D5 (fourth line), for instance, is more
approachable even with standard fingerings. Vann Turner's first fingering
works well for Bb6-D6 (I'm not so fond personally of his second one, but if
others can make it work...).

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Vann Turner [mailto:vjoet@-----.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:07 AM
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet tremolo

If you are speaking of third line Bb and fourth line D:

Keep your right hand fingers on the tone holes as you play the Bb, and play
it as a measured tremulo in triplets or 16ths, depending on the nature of
the piece.

If you are speaking of Bb above the staff, you have 2 choices:

1. Play the Bb with the side trill key, and the D as an overblown G (on the
staff, that is, no keys depressed at all, not even thumb and register,
except you can keep the side trill key depressed throughout.
2. Play the Bb xoo|xoo, and the D with regular fingering.

Vann Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Ratzlaff" <rratzlaff@-----.com>
To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:25 PM
Subject: [kl] Clarinet tremolo

> Greetings......
>
> I have a Bb clarinet part that calls for a tremolo between Bb 4 and D5 on

> the treble clef staff.
>
> Are there any alternate fingerings?
>
> Thanks
>
> Randy
>
>
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