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RH exercise

Author: kdk
Date: 2024-07-26 03:23
Attachment: r hand exercise.pdf (31k)

Here's what Philip Carron tried to post. His comments describing the exercise:

This exercise works the pinky in combination with other notes involving the right hand. It may help pinky function, especially on an A clarinet where the stretch is slightly wider than on the Bb. At age 70+ this kind of more or less regular exercise seems necessary for me to retain such function.

I've also been using this as rehab following an injury to my index knuckle, which was described in an previous thread. The last line is the hardest, requiring the injured finger to directly use the injured portion to actuate the side trill key. I've had to create other little exercises for that motion alone.

Notes . . .
- Tempi and repetitions are ad lib. So is the specific pattern.
- The register of the pinky notes is chosen because those notes tend to fail more audibly than their counterparts in the low register.
- One can incur an RSI (repetitive stress injury) by overdoing this; be alert for signals of that, and progress slowly.
- The left pinky can be similarly exercised.

- A harder version for tonal facility and thumb coordination takes notes
2 & 4 of each quad , the "non-pinky" notes, down a 12th.
- A harder version for better pinky control requires only touching the pinky keys without pressing them, so they all sound clarion D5.

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