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Fingering Help please

Author: Roys_toys
Date: 2012-09-02 23:17

I am trying to improve my finger technique, and would appreciate advice on 2 things that I cant find mentioned in my methods books.
1/ when I practise fast trills or repeats between throat Ab and B natural , ( playing B the normal long tube way, not on the trill keys) it seems ok to leave my side finger pressing open the Ab key during the B. Even though its way up the tube, the clarinet doesn’t squeak or refuse to play the B, and the B tone seems pretty accurate .
2/I find fast trills using right hand little finger can be hazardous. Coming repeatedly off/on low clarion Eb, or right C# can upset other fingers by the time I have done several repeats, and rapid waggling of the right B key can give me a slow response. But I noticed that when I trill/repeat from any right l-f note to one where at least one right finger hole is open, the tone of the open-hole note is hardly affected if I leave whichever right l-f key pressed.
When I only move R1,R2, or R3 and trill with the right l-f continually pressing I don’t get problems. ( well, sometimes going to F# throws me)
3/ In both these questions I’d like to know whether the simplification is ok, or whether I should struggle on trying to play each tone to the finger chart for the sake of a general technique improvement which I will benefit from later.

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