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Re: Routine extreme altissimo?

Author: fskelley  Date:   2014-02-11 01:06 Attachment:  PF140210.png (30k) Ed, Congratulations on hitting a new note! ...nice feeling. I realize I have been operating under an unwarranted assumption- that all these super players have kept lower lip on the reed as they play up high. It seems so unreasonable to me to switch lip on / lip off as you suggest. But perhaps some players have perfected this sleight of teeth. Maybe some do and some don't? How could we know? I'm trying to do it all the "hard" way, with lip. My absolute favorite clarinet recording is Pete Fountain on Bravo from 1992 "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mimWHUWuaG4 It's a long clip and worth the listen. But one little section has always intrigued me... around 2:39 he works his way up to the high note in the piece, a "double Bb". I attached a piece of my transcription of this song showing the riff. Anyway- I've always wondered why Pete's tone changes a bit through here. And now I'm thinking perhaps he's switched his lower teeth to hit the high note? And that's how I guess you'd have to do it- switch for an entire phrase that might include lower notes (how low can you do teeth?). So the rest of you- are you teethers? or non-teethers? PS- Another interesting exercise is to figure out Pete's fingering for double Bb from the video. I abandoned my previous choice after seeing this, and found jumps from F to Bb to finger and play more easily. Now I pop up to Bb at a moment's whim when I'm in the neighborhood of F-G, probably too much. I wish the C was that easy, then I wouldn't even be asking about it here. Stan in Orlando EWI 4000S with modifications Post Edited (2014-02-11 01:54)

Topics	Author	Date
Routine extreme altissimo OK  new	fskelley	2014-02-06 07:09
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	ned	2014-02-06 02:24
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-06 02:45
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-09-22 07:48
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	gsurosey	2014-02-06 07:35
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	gkern	2014-02-06 10:19
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-06 13:51
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	Clarimeister	2014-02-06 10:51
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-06 19:08
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	gkern	2014-02-06 19:59
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-06 20:44
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-06 20:55
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-06 21:33
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	seabreeze	2014-02-06 19:00
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 00:36
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-10 09:49
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-07 01:37
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-06 18:47
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	gkern	2014-02-06 23:54
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-07 01:34
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	William	2014-02-07 00:01
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 00:42
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	kilo	2014-02-07 05:46
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 01:19
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-13 18:29
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	sfalexi	2014-02-07 06:18
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	seabreeze	2014-02-07 11:29
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 14:38
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	BflatNH	2014-02-07 15:11
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 19:58
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	BflatNH	2014-02-07 10:15
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-07 17:19
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-07 17:25
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 15:11
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-07 15:52
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 21:16
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	sfalexi	2014-02-07 16:27
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-02-07 19:04
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-07 15:18
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	BflatNH	2014-02-07 20:07
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-02-08 00:53
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	Ed Lowry	2014-02-10 23:57
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?	fskelley	2014-02-11 01:06
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-10 20:21
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	seabreeze	2014-02-10 21:01
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-02-11 03:05
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	Wes	2014-02-10 22:42
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	seabreeze	2014-02-11 04:14
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-11 04:54
Video example of reed change  new	fskelley	2014-02-12 10:30
Re: Routine extreme altissimo?  new	fskelley	2014-02-19 04:50
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	Tony F	2014-02-19 02:15
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	fskelley	2014-02-19 12:09
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	fskelley	2014-04-21 06:05
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	fskelley	2014-03-02 08:21
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	fskelley	2014-03-02 08:23
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	Tony F	2014-03-02 09:15
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	DavidBlumberg	2014-03-02 14:48
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	fskelley	2014-03-03 05:24
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	clarinetist04	2014-03-03 06:24
Re: Routine extreme altissimo SOLVED?!  new	fskelley	2014-03-09 07:05
Re: Routine extreme altissimo OK  new	locke9342	2014-09-22 08:29
Re: Routine extreme altissimo OK  new	maxopf	2014-09-22 08:43
Re: Routine extreme altissimo OK  new	fskelley	2014-09-22 09:28
Re: Routine extreme altissimo OK  new	Ken Shaw	2014-09-22 17:06
Re: Routine extreme altissimo OK  new	Philip Caron	2014-09-23 03:36

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