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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2008-03-07 18:39
Hi,
I have show coming up and I am getting bass clarinet chops tuned up. After fiddling around a little, I tried to play the famous bass clarinet solo in this movement. It seems to me that the piece is in A Concert and the BC would begin on B5 for the arpeggio and then down to E3 then the octave jump and then the finish.
Do I have it about right?
HRL
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Author: Mark G Simon
Date: 2008-03-07 18:56
Start on A#, go down in thirds. The low note is F#. It's in the Bass clarinet excerpt book.
Clarinetist, composer, arranger of music for clarinet ensemble
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2008-03-07 19:28
Depending on your horn, I recommend that you start with:
xooloxo for the A#.
Really helps a great deal! (Apologies if this was already in your bag of tricks!)
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2008-03-07 20:07
With all due respect, having performed OTT a gazillion times, including my last two performances as a member of the National Symphony (and once as a sub after my retirement), I can't recommend starting with the xoooxo fingering for the initial A#. If your instrument is just a little bit out of line that note becomes stuffy and risky -- better to start with the side key fingering and use xoooxo for the subsequent A# if you must!
Hank, you have it right, assuming you are using concert pitch.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2008-03-07 22:32
There is no way I can argue with experience like that!
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2008-03-08 02:46
Thanks, gentleman. You have given me exactly what I need (plus a few tricks to consider). It's a very neat passage to play and must surely be on most audition lists (but not being an orchestral player at all, I do not know for sure).
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-03-08 03:18
Sorry Larry but I have to agree with Tobin on this. I too have played this solo many times with the Baltimore Symphony and I always use the one and two fingering. I find it much easier that way. It I true that you have to have the mechanism working just right but for me, it’s so much better on my bass. I play it that way and I teach it that way. Like so many things that I say, it depends on the individual. If your instrument is working like it should, try it both ways and play it the way it works best for you. ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457
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