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Re: Natural movements of pinky fingers

Author: Bruno
Date: 2006-06-15 04:21

If you double on flute you learn early on to keep your right pinky down (actually keeping the tone hole open). I now do it too on clarinet, though of course it closes the E/B tone hole. Which is all right BTW because it helps support the horn and darkens the lower register and throat tones. In fact I keep all R.H. fingers down for throat tones. For another color, try putting all L.H. fingers down for throat A and A#. Get used to it like I did and you find it hard to quit even when you want a breathy throat tone w/nothing down except the key.
An advantage of closing R.H. tone holes for throat tones is that when you cross the break, a lot of fingers are already down.
Another trick I've learned over the years is one to correct a slow finger causing a double attack of a forked-fingering note. I just find out which finger is slow and put my mind into that finger. After 2 more executions, the problem disappears.

What's this all about? Why, keeping fingers close to the horn. Isn't that what this thread is about?

B

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