Author: Runhammar
Date: 2019-09-11 07:51
Hello all
I'm new to the clarinet, struggling for air but enjoying. I come from playing non-transposing instruments (piano, violin, guitar) and was quite intrigued to find out about the Bb tuning of my clarinet. (as a sidenote; for two days, looking at my chromatic tuner, I thought it was down to my embouchure and struggled to form my mouth to raise my pitch a whole step. I got nowhere).
Now... I will probably never pick up a clarinet in any other key than Bb. My whole purpose of starting playing it is to play along in simple tunes with friends playing guitar, mostly. I will be resorting to general sheet music that I share with them and pick up melody lines or arrange parts from them. Here is my question:
Why not, in my case, just rewrite the fingering board instead of transposing sheet music. So when the paper says F, i play, and "think" F (all holes open). The top a-button would, in my mind, be a G-button. Im only a week into playing and it would be easy for me to switch.
I bet there are good arguments against this, and I will listen humbly.
Regards
Per
Per Runhammar
Post Edited (2019-09-11 07:52)
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