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Re: Fantasy fingering

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2006-08-25 14:47

clarnibass wrote:

>> I'm assuming Tony Pay has a lot more experience teaching than I so he probably knows better what works for learning.>>

Well, I don't know about that -- I don't think I've ever 'taught' that technique before. It's just that if I have to consolidate any piece of technique myself, I try to approach it in a way that minimises it being 'special', so that it fits naturally into the skills I already have available.

Including the D natural 'both ways' is one way to do that -- the first that occurred to me -- and it seemed to work to generate a relaxed and fluid movement that corresponds to a plausible note sequence in my 'normal' playing -- plausible, note, to the EAR as well as to the fingers, a consideration often overlooked -- as well as mimicking the exact timings of the finger movements required for the 'tricky' passage in question. So I already had a relaxed muscle and ear memory of success before combining the two halves into a practisable whole.

That there are other ways of approaching the matter, I have no doubt.

All that having been said, if you want to play these pieces, buy an A clarinet!-)

>> Tony Pay - just a few days ago I was told you did a master class in Israel, I think just a few years ago. Too bad I didn't know about it or else I would come.>>

I've done classes as part of the 'Clarinet Days' organised by Sarah Elbaz twice previously, once with Hakan Rosengren and most recently with Sabine Meyer and her husband Reiner Wehle two years ago. If all goes well, I'll do them again in December this year.

Tony

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