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Re: Problems fingering middle B-rh

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-04-20 01:46

You must have smaller hands to begin with? As I try to imagine what is happening I think that your fingers are perhaps angled so that if you draw a line from the palm to the tips of your fingers, the fingers point down at a pretty clear angle.

My suggestion for this (if this IS the case) would be to take the suggestion of Elsa Ludwig-Verder and take this from the THUMB perspective. You want (if you draw a line from the base of the thumb to the tip) the thumb to actually be angled slightly UP toward the ceiling. This position will make you fingers perpendicular to the clarinet and your pinky would actually need to curl a bit to hit the paddle keys. This is also a good attitude to alleviate thumb and wrist stress as well (you may be able to throw out the strap !!!!).

As for the sliding on the left, I do that ALL the time both ways (I find the key action, or rather the cup noise much less so this way) particularly doing interrupted scales of four or more sharps (1234, 2345, 3456, etc.).

............Paul Aviles

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