Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2012-09-22 09:09
Clarinetists need to develop their high range the same way that singers or brass players do. You will need to work regularly on just those notes, to develop facility, such as it is. Every day, warm up these notes, no more than you warm up of the rest of your range.
For a secure the player, these notes may not be a problem. For many of us, though, there will be s subtle interplay between reed condition, warm-up state, over-use, and phase of the moon.
Some players do well developing a mental checklist to run through when approaching these notes: reed status (check), posture (check), breath support (check), tongue position (check), are you feeling lucky? (check).
One of the later movements in Ralph Vaughan Williams' cantata "Hodie" has a 3 clarinet entrances (!!!) on the A (2nd one above the staff), and then a B (Curses). I obsessed about these notes, only to hear in the recording that they were in the mix behind the strings and flutes.
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