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Author: Eju1011
Date: 2011-11-13 02:41
heyy everybody,
So, a couple months back, during the summer, i performed Carmina Burana with my youth orchestra. And i had the the part that doubled on the Eb clarinet. Since then, I've been playing the Eb in other youth honor ensembles and stuff, and my tone and intonation on the effer's great. Except for hitting a high altissimo E, i can hit every other note all the way up to a ridiculously high C and have spot on intonation, except for that one E. When i would play long sustained notes, i would play the E by fingering a G/C, and adding the throat tone G# sidekey, and it would come in tune very well. The problem is that with runs going up to an E i can't use that fingering it sounds extremely flat, anybody have some advice on hitting that note in tune? Thanks a bunch!
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Author: Clarimeister
Date: 2011-11-13 04:22
Hello. I'm a fellow Eb player here. High E is definitely, in my opinion the absolute worst note when it comes to tuning on the Eb clarinet, followed by the high B in the clarion register and the altissimo F#. High E can be helped a lot by adding the right hand sliver key with your ring finger. This will bring the pitch up drastically and may even cause you to be too high, which I think is much better than being too low. This sliver key can also be used for the F# earlier mentioned as well as the F. An alternative method, for myself, is to play the High E like the clarion F as such [TR xxx | xoo] and adding the throat A key and the left pinky C#/G# key so that High E is fingered TR A xxxg# | xooEb, kinda hard to explain how to do it, but that makes the high e speak and tune very very well and isn't too bad when approaching from leaps. If you're ending on that note on a scalular passage then use the sliver key method. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any more questions!
Post Edited (2011-11-13 04:24)
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Author: Buster
Date: 2011-11-13 05:20
Try D#6 while opening the throat A.
Not the best intrinsic sound quality, but is flexible and will work if needed. Also easy to use in scalar passages.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-11-13 16:54
Instead of using the G/C fingering you should leave the first finger opened. Leaving the first finger down in the LH makes the note flat. Add the G# side key as needed as well. If it's still flat add the sliver key in the RH as well or in it's place depending on how flat or not it is. ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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