Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-07-25 02:14
"Why is keeping the pinky down for both notes more advanced than putting it down for neither? Neither is hard to do[?]"
I agree that holding the pinky down consistently is much easier than applying it for the high D only.
Furthermore, at least for me, if not the OP, holding the pinky down continually *may* be only a slight, if any, degree more difficult than no pinky at all.
That said, my take is that the benefit of this approach, in both intonational and temperamental benefit may even be less, especially when the passage is taken at speed, than the degree of difficulty *the O.P. might face* (not me) associated with pinky down continually versus no pinky down continually choice.
I was trying to look through the "glasses" of the O.P., who as a first time player of this seemingly easier than it truly is piece, will likely face many of its roadblocks, at which time is better spent working on, I think, than continually pinky/no pinky on these notes, should the latter present time to address.
If the OP is ambivalent, I agree the pinky down to be a better option...having just tried it myself doing a practice session I had between this and last post.
Let me offer a conjecture that I, myself might prove to contradict 5 minutes from now....ready:
*minor* intonational differences on the clarinet not corrected with fingerings that are equal or less difficult than those associated with the minorist of pitch defect, may at times serve the interest of not being corrected in their ability to have the intonationally bad notes we can't control, from, relatively speaking, standing out to the listener more, not to mention the time associated with mastering the new fingerings.
Some day I shall right a book called "The Pragmatic Clarinetist" accepting that some of you may have cause to call such logic the subject of a book called "The Bad Clarinetist."
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