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Fingering problem

Author: mrn
Date: 2009-04-04 23:16

This little sequence of notes showed up in an exercise book of mine, and I was wondering the best way to finger this so that I can work this up to a really high speed eventually. It's kind of got me stumped...

The notes are C#4 (chalumeau C#) B4 (middle line B) D#5 (second line from the top of the staff) C#5 (second space from the top of the staff). The whole thing is slurred and played in 16th notes (semiquavers).

I'm trying to play this on a plain vanilla R-13 Buffet, so I don't have a left-hand Eb key. The only potential solutions I could come up with on my own were to play the B on the right and then switch fingers mid-note (which gets harder to do the faster you go) or to play the B with the side keys (which, aside from the obvious tuning and tone problems, is a bit of a stretch for the right hand).

I keep thinking there must be a better way to do this. I just haven't found it yet. Anybody have any ideas?

If if helps, this little figure comes from Jettel's Klarinettenschule vol. 2 (the scale book). It's part of the exercise in 7ths and 9ths for the key of E major. Surely somebody has a good solution for negotiating this passage (or at least can tell me which unpleasant solution they use).

Post Edited (2009-04-05 00:15)

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