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Author: ajanosa
Date: 2017-08-09 05:27
Hi all,
Hopefully this isn't a topic that's already been touched upon 100 times (I did quite a bit of searching, hence my asking now), but I was curious to get some opinions on what fingerings people prefer to use when playing a chromatic scale up and down, specifically for any quick transition between the double B and double C natural. and vice versa. The "standard" fingerings (if you even want to call them that in this range) of your typical Ab 12- | 12- to A 1-- | 1-- play with relatively good intonation and response on my horn, but getting between them quickly is painfully awkward. Other combinations I've tried leave at least one of the two notes out of tune or unresponsive. Thoughts on this? FYI This question has no directly musical context, I'd like the notes to fit as evenly as possible within an ascending and descending scale as an exercise more than anything, so no other musical or ensemble considerations need be made.
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Author: echi85
Date: 2017-08-09 05:38
Standard fingerings until Altissimo G.
G:
RT oxx xxo Eb
G#:
RT oxx oxo Eb
A:
Rt oxx ooo Eb
Bb:
Register key, but no thumb hole, oxx ooo Eb
Bb:
Register key, but no thumb hole, throat A oxx ooo Eb
C:
Register key, but no thumb hole, throat A oxx xoo Eb
The long fingerings are terribly clumsy when going fast. These no thumb fingerings work great provided your reed is hard enough.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2017-08-09 07:44
For the chromatic scale I use the standard fingerings for B6 & C7. Timing the 2nd finger of the two hands isn't super hard to nail down, and there are other intervals that require similar motions (*). Not the easiest trill, though.
Extending the scale higher yet involves worse awkwardness.
(*) for example D5-Bb5 using the forked 1+1 Bb.
Post Edited (2017-08-09 08:09)
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