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Fingering for whole-tone scale

Author: fieldofcows
Date: 2023-08-15 01:33

Hi all. I've recently started playing clarinet again after many years' break, working mainly on early jazz - or actually mostly music from the 40's, 50's UK trad revival from Sid Phillips and the like. I've found the best way for me to learn and improve is to transcribe some of the recordings and learn to play the clarinet parts myself.

When working on Sid Phillips' version of Twelfth Street Rag I found one simple sounding ascending/descending scale passage that sounds simple enough but is very hard to play cleanly with the standard fingering. Have a listen here https://youtu.be/A8PkKhRRhWQ?t=102. It's a whole-tone scale starting from clarion E up to C and back down again. I've looked at some alternative fingerings but haven't found anything that makes it easy to play cleanly.

How would you play this? Any suggestions for alternative fingerings?

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