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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2004-05-16 22:44
With regard to the Baerman Complete Method for Clarinet (Fisher / Langenus edition), Third Division.
On page 8, G# minor Broken Chord Passage (arpeggios).
I would appreciate comments on your favorite fingerings in the 2nd bar, especially for D#, B natural, and G#.
This question is for Boehm instruments without left-hand D#/G# keys.
Thanks
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-05-16 22:53
In the second bar play the first G#5 as:
TR x x o / x x o
The other left/right pinky alterations will then be obvious ...GBK
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2004-05-27 00:07
Thanks much. Takes quite a bit of air to make it work. Wouldn't like to hold that fingering in a slow passage, but it improves facility quite a bit.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-05-27 14:03
Ralph -
It's possible to slide your right little finger down from D# to B -- only a little harder than from D# to C#. There's noting illegal, immoral or fattening about sliding -- bassoonists do it all the time, and violnists do it every third note. Rub your little finger along the side of your nose to get a little grease to put on the top key, which will make the slide easy.
The really hard broken arpeggio is C# major, where there's no way to get your left little finger from G# to C# in the descending figure. Almost as bad is the Ab major broken arpeggio, where your left little finger has to jump from Ab to C. The only way I've found is to do what trombonists do to slur -- sneak in a "lu" tongue stroke, barely brushing the tip of the reed to fuzz the break when your finger jumps.
If you ever come to something like this in actual music, you can always switch to your other clarinet and transpose.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Lala
Date: 2004-05-27 19:38
I was taught the 2 and 2 fingering GBK recommends as a kid. When I did that with my current teacher, he wasn't much of an advocate of the fingering, since the note is miserably stuffy and just sounds lousy, at least on my horn. I know some will say, if the passage is fast, no one will notice. My teacher, the purist, would have you finger the B on the left and then very quickly switch to the rh fingering. With slow practice this can sound very smooth and totally seamless. Speed will come later.
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2004-05-29 02:26
I was sure that some more comments would come out of the wood(wind)work. Thanks to all!
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