Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2018-07-10 17:49
Hi ned. To the right of the "Clarinet BBoard" banner on this and all board pages is a graphic showing C4. For a description of Scientific Pitch Notation see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation. It's the only general purpose way to refer to pitches without confusion.
If the C4 shown is what you mean by middle C on the piano, then the Ab you refer to is Ab6. When I returned to playing that same note was difficult for me also. My preferred fingering is TO|oxx|oxo plus either pinky F/C key, but there are others.
If you're interested in extending upward, then work on it every day at least a couple minutes. Try for a sweet sound, and for an embouchure that works in all registers with little adjustment. Some setups work better than others.
I at least do scales, 3rds, and a little extemporizing as high as I can every day, and often work on sounding the next note or two. It's not systematic or even very deliberate. My working range with double-lip has gotten to G#7, and I'm confident to E7 - I used a leap from G3 to D7 in a cadenza in a solo performance last week. I know how to play up to C8, and after adding teeth to reed I've extended to E8, though it wasn't real pretty. I'm a solitary amateur; if I can thusly do then anyone can, or better. Uh, if they want to.
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