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Author: Bnatural
Date: 2005-02-27 20:43
What source, aside from common knowledge do you guys typically use to decide what fignerings to use in altissmo passages?
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2005-02-27 20:50
And whichever one is easier to finger from the previous note to get to the next note.
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Author: Bnatural
Date: 2005-02-27 20:58
Is their a better way to do this, I'm goign Eb F Eb F Ab... I'm using 23 1 and hook for Eb and 23 and that little key below C..... for Ab I'm using 1 and 3 on both hands w/ C#
This is for measure 52 of variations on a korean folk song... just curious as to anyones input
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Author: ken
Date: 2005-02-27 22:02
Have you tried:
E-flat = TR|0XX|X[sk]00| right pinky Eb-Ab (standard) TO
F-nat = TR|0XX[left pinky C#/G#]|0[sk]00| right pinky Eb-Ab TO
A-flat = TR|000[left pinky C#/G#]|000| right pinky Eb-Ab OR
A-flat = TR|0X0|0X0|right pinky Eb-Ab
On all three of my horns this combination produce pitches that speak the fullest, are best in tune, and have the most stable feel while effecting minimum movement. v/r Ken
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2005-02-27 22:22
The Ridenour book, "Clarinet Fingerings," I've found to be excellent. Each altissimo note has between 8 and 24 fingerings listed, with a short write-up on what each one is good for. Writeups continue to A# an octave above the staff, with fingerings listed to the E above that.
If it's not just me playing, though, I tend to also confer with other people in my section. It's fine if I find a responsive, well-tuned altissimo, but if everyone else is playing one that's a bit sharp, I'd be the one that makes it sound screwy.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-02-27 22:31
Ken's suggestions are excellent.
In this passage two other simple (one finger) possibilites for the Ab6 are:
TR ooo / xoo Eb/Ab
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TR ooo (+ bottom right side key #4) / ooo Eb/Ab
...GBK
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Author: Bnatural
Date: 2005-02-27 23:46
Thanks everybody... I'll have to pick up that book next time I have money and am out..... I really like ken's first Ab suggestion , and I think that is what GBK's second one is but, I'm not sure I don't no what the key number's are....
many thanks... that made it alot easier
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-02-28 00:04
The Opperman book is another must have for fingerings. Both are great and not repeats of each other either.
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Author: clarispark
Date: 2005-02-28 13:17
VARIATIONS ON A KOREAN FOLK SONG! We played that this past weekend for our district band festival. Interesting, eh? Well, to get those notes out of our clarinets, we three firsts just used standard fingerings for the E-flat and F, then just played the G sharp enough that it sounded like an A-flat. It's what our director calls the "screech octave", but we call it..."interesting".
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-02-28 14:41
clarispark wrote:
> Well, to get those notes out of our clarinets, we three firsts
> just used standard fingerings for the E-flat and F, then just
> played the G, sharp enough that it sounded like an A-flat.
Disgraceful and not acceptable....
It doesn't take that much effort to consult a fingering chart to find just one of the possible fingerings for Ab6 ...GBK
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Author: Bnatural
Date: 2005-02-28 18:54
Yea I could never see purposely playing a note out of tune to make it another note, the fingerings on this page work very very well for that section..... and as a follow up the Ab fingering suggested is actually closer to intune, but isn't all that far off of the other fingerings... so even if the others don't want to change... we should be good........... many thanks guys
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