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Trouble with Register Transition

Author: OTLC
Date: 2007-08-29 20:13

I am a newbie (but old timer) learning clarintet via a teacher using the Rubank Elementary Method. I was doing fine in the low register but all of a sudden Lesson 11 goes to the upper register and I was doing pretty good in upper register alone until I reached the C scale ascending/descending portion which required going from mid A to B natural/ or reverse. My teacher has taught me the roll and drop when transitioning from mid A to B natural/ or reverse with the first finger. The coordination of the remaining left hand fingers and thumb with the keys and O. K. with the transition has got me stymied. I get no sound or barely a squeak after the transition. With quarter notes I just can't get it. With whole notes I have minut time to fiddle with the hole coverings to MAYBE get a sound. Lesson 12 is totally register change scales with multiple transitioning notes. I am frustrated to the point of saying the lower register is all I am ever going to be able to do with the clarinet. Does anyone have a magic idea or exercise I can do to overcome this Octave Key transition point?

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Trouble with Register Transition

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2007-08-29 20:13