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disasters on high - the martino set

Author: Olorin
Date: 2007-05-23 03:37

hi all,

i've been away on vacation for the past week and tried to cram the martino into my body by reading through it. everything was fine in my head until i actually picked up my instrument today and realized that those (up to) 4 octave leaps to the UBER high Bbs were quite the challenge. I was just wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for fingerings, or just playing such huge leaps into the altissimo in general.

hope to hear from some of you before my lesson thursday!
thanks,
e

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: RodRubber
Date: 2007-05-23 04:34

i'd suggest prayer

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: donald
Date: 2007-05-23 07:04

i don't have a clarinet nearby to try out and check that i'm remembering correctly.... but i believe that the fingering i use for some of those B flats is...
the middle finger of the left hand
on its own!
another high B flat fingering is this....
finger 3rd space (upper reg) C, and open the left hand little finger C#/G# key (so, basically, the "long high F" with the F/C key down)
i'm pretty sure that when i last played this piece (1997) i used both of these fingerings in various places.
hope that this was helpful
donald

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-05-23 11:41

For me, the most reliable super Bb is the one donald describes. I add the throat Ab key, which stabilizes the note.

Set your metronome to 40 and play one note per click, setting each note in your ear and fingers before you play it.

It also helps to use the voicing exercise Charles Neidich talked about at http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=20&i=757&t=757 and the bugle call exercise I wrote about at http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=113165&t=113147.

Good luck. In the preface to A Set for Clarinet, Martino says one goal was to write the most difficult piece he could. It's been far surpassed now, but it still sets the bar pretty high.

Ken Shaw

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: GBK
Date: 2007-05-23 12:30

A simple, often overlooked fingering for the high Bb is just using the 2nd finger of the left hand, NO thumb or register key, and the Eb vent:

(no thumb/reg key) o x o / o o o Eb

...GBK

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: Olorin
Date: 2007-05-23 17:05

thanks so much! both of those fingerings work really well, and i don't think i saw anything as simple in the ridenour either : ).

time for s l o w . . . p r a c t i s i n g . . .

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-05-23 18:01

Yeah. I'm gonna tackle that one when I return. Not for any purpose other than to be able to say, "Yeah. I can play that"

US Army Japan Band

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: donald
Date: 2007-05-23 20:06

thanks GBK i guess i should have written "second finger" not "middle finger"

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Re: disasters on high - the martino set

Author: GBK
Date: 2007-05-23 20:48

donald wrote:

> thanks GBK i guess i should have written "second finger" not
> "middle finger"

Actually, you were quite ok. I must have not noticed that you already described the fingering I posted...GBK

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