Klarinet Archive - Posting 000284.txt from 2011/03

From: corvo di bassetto <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb to D tremolo
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:25:44 -0400

Hi all,

This is clearly an example of bad clarinet writing=85 =

Yet if you have to do it, I'd think of singers and early wind players (espe=
cially natural horns), the way they would execute a shake or tremolo: start=
slowly, it is a kind of yodeling first, and try to speed up until it can h=
ardly be noticed (with regular fingerings that is). Good luck. It is a chan=
ce to work on the register break. Just make sure to cover as many holes wit=
h the right hand as possible and leave the left hand fingers as close to th=
e holes as possible. On my clarinet I can leave on all fingers but right th=
umb and index. Those two would rock from keys to holes in as smooth a movem=
ent as possible. It sounds like honking or wild geese first, but it is wort=
h while working on it. It will of course never be a really quick tremolo. F=
or that you will have to transpose. How about playing the part on a C (Ab-C=
), Eb (F-A) or A (B-Eb) clarinet? Unfortunately, neither is particularly go=
od. If it was Richard Strauss you'd have a clarinet d'amore in Ab made for =
that tremolo only.

Best regards
danyel

Am 30.03.2011 um 09:22 schrieb Michael Webster:

> re Bb/D tremolo
> I had this same tremolo on clarinet 3 part of concert band arrangement of =

> Fingel's Cave.Easy if you have a full boehm clarinet - low eb (below sta=
ve) =

> with register key waggle to regular D fingering.I have not found a =

> satsifactory way to do this on regular clarinet-it might be possible to =

> simulate the tremolo if there are 2 players;get1toplay the Bb:alternating =

> right hand stack on & off & get the other to play D sixteenth notes with =

> soft attack.
> Michael webster
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