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Impossible C and B and top to bottom delay

Author: Maylana
Date: 2023-12-10 00:40

The middle C and B on the staff (On the break)always have this weird trilly squeak, especially when I play them solo. In the piece I'm playing right now the beginning is 6 Cs in a row and they always delay or squeak or just sound bad in general and I'm not sure why. I was having problems with squeaking but I moved up to a 3 Vandoren reed and now it's better except for the b and c. I think I might be blowing too much but when I try and do it less it doesn't come out. I get sort of tense when I play them and I'm not sure how to stop doing that. I'm not sure if I am doing it wrong. It's also not my clarinet's fault.

Also, when I play that one high note where it is just the octave key and my thumb and then take both off instead of going down to an F it goes up. Not to a squeak just a higher note. Does anyone know why?

I would call myself a beginning-intermediate, maybe intermediate at clarinet and I have a student's clarinet(Vito I believe) I can play all the notes on my fingering chart, which goes up to 3 or 4 lines above the staff. High notes are easier for me to play than low notes, and I have a problem with my finger liking to stray pretty far away from my keys, but I'm not sure how to fix it.

Post Edited (2023-12-10 00:53)

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