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Author: Drew
Date: 2003-06-05 03:09
I'm looking for the trill fingering for Altissimo A natural to B natural.
A student of mine is using it in a musical.
Other than that, I'd really like to know if anyone knows (or knows where I can find) various fingerings for the other notes up to top C and any trills for them?
Thanks
Drew.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-06-05 03:43
Drew... Play the A6 with the standard fingering:
TR x 2 3 / x x x F#/C#
trill to the B6 by adding the throat A key and 1&2 in the right hand.
Thus it will look like this:
TR A key x 2 3 / 1 2 x F#/C#
For a slightly lower sounding B6 add the A key with 1, 2, & 3 of the right hand. Thus:
TR A key x 2 3 / 1 2 3 F#/C#
I've contributed many fingerings to Tim Reichart's site, which can be found here: http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/
There are a number of good fingering texts. The Ridenour book is excellent and is considered the standard. Alan Sim's book with 303 clarinet fingerings (up to G7) is compact and easy to keep in your case. Also, Peter Hadcock has a number of interesting and useful fingerings in his book "The Working Clarinetist"...GBK
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Author: cassie
Date: 2003-06-05 17:32
A fingering website!! Brilliant! I never thought to look for one, and I was never referred to use one, but I'm going to print some out right now! My chalameau register is consistently sharp and my altissimo is always very flat, so now I have new options to try! Yea! Thanks guys.
cassie
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-06-05 18:05
The Ridenour book is certainly the way to go....well done and easy to read unlike many charts.
As to the sharpness of the chalumeau this may be quite alot trickier to solve than with fingering charts....
As to the flat altissimo there are any number of problems why you are so low....ranging from embouchure to even reeds....
don't expect the fingerings to solve all of these problems at once...be aware of which notes are flattest and work at raising them through fairly easy and standard fingering...difficult fingerings may not be usable in certain passages and prohibit you from developing if they are too much for the hands to get around...
seek out a teacher...
David Dow
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Author: Drew
Date: 2003-06-11 03:24
The musical is called "The Wiz". You know the one with Michael Jackson. I've never seen it, so I think I might hire it out and have a look.
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-06-11 18:33
Well, I checked the Casimir Kell source, but old "Chilidog" didn't have anything suitable recorded. So I tried a few things, none of which worked as well as GBK's suggestions, so I gave up.
Curiously, while doing that, I unearthed truly wizard fingerings for D7 and Eb7, which I promise never to use in mixed company.
Regards,
John
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