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Author: Frightful
Date: 2010-04-15 22:44
So I just picked up the piece from my director after listening to a recording. It's extremely fun but I'm having terrible trouble with the B-flat to C to B-flat triplets. I can cross the break well enough when the beats are just the eighth notes, but the triplets really trip me up. They're just plain sloppy.
What tips you guys suggest about technique, in general, when crossing from the throat keys to the low clarino register?
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Author: SVClarinet09
Date: 2010-04-15 22:46
I played that piece my sophomore year in high school. My recommendation would be to keep your right hand down fingering a C, and make as least of a movement you can with the pinch Bb.
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Author: William
Date: 2010-04-16 14:56
I use the regular fingering for C, but as DB suggested, you can use the top right hand side trill key (just the one, not "keys" as DB mentioned) for producing the C while you finger the Bb. I wouldn't use this fingering for a long note as the sound is not good, at the "Molly" tempo, quality really doesn't matter much. If it helps you , use it, but keep working on your technique so that some day you may be able to play the more convenional fingering easily. Molly on the Shore is really fun for clarinetists...enjoy.
C5 (alternate) AT 000/000 +1st rh finger on top side trill key;
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Author: salzo
Date: 2010-04-16 16:05
I recently worked on this with a student. I suggest not focusing so much on the fingers, but instead focus on the air. Really get the air moving on the Bb, keep it constant, do not tighten up when going to the C. Blow the air through the C, keeping it constant till the end of the Bb following the C.
I noticed that it is very easy to kind of rush the problem notes, in anticipation of the "hard to play" C. I had my student play with a metronome, telling him to play it "as slow as he could" with the metronome, from the first Bb until the D. I do not mean to set the metronome slow-set it at the tempo desired, and focus on playing it as slow as you can within the time the metronome allows. This will help you to avoid rushing the passage, or using inefficient or excessive finger motion, which is the real culprit.
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Author: Frightful
Date: 2010-04-16 19:26
I tried the trill key at the side, they are either too sharp or flat, and it's definitely noticeable to me. I really don't like those trill keys that much anyways, never have.
I'll try salzo's technique, if I can't get it down I'll resort to using the trill key. I'm not playing it for a concert or anything currently, but I felt like I needed a heads-up in case some other piece does this as well.
Thanks, all.
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Author: DezzaG
Date: 2010-04-17 00:56
The proper Bb - C trill finger is playing Bb the usuall way and adding BOTH of the top trill keys just as David suggests. This produces a more or less in tune C (some student model clarinets might produce varying results, in my experience). This is how I have always played Molly on the Shore and I always will as it smoother and at that speed nobody notices the inferior tone of the C. This is why we have those trill keys on our instrument, just dont get lazy and try to use them for anything other than a trill or fast mordent etc.
D
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