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Author: Bryan
Date: 2002-04-28 15:09
How can you learn to play the notes above High G(Four lines above the staff)? would reed or anything on the mouth piece or the mouth piece have anything to do with it?
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2002-04-28 15:36
Control has everything to do with it. Keep your chin down. Start on high G and try going up from there (larger jumps can be harder). Look at a lot of different fingerings and find which one is most in tune and easiest for you.
http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/ This is the best fingering chart for "up there."
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Author: William
Date: 2002-04-28 16:59
Your reed must be well balanced to your mpc, not necessarily only harder (V12s, 3.5 should work) And, as stated, it's all control--breath and embouchre--from there on up. Remember that they are all just well controlled squeaks (overtones or harmonics). And learning them will not only improve your control of the lower notes, but also keep unwanted neighborhood pets far from your backyard. Good (stratisphonic) Clarineting!!!! (by some earplugs for your spouse)
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Author: Wes
Date: 2002-04-28 17:15
One can try the Spring warmup routine which includes 4 beat long tones chromatically as high as one can go at 60 beats per minute. This helps develop the embouchure and other muscles needed for playing these high notes. Just occasionally trying to find these notes does not make it easy to use them in a musical way. I try to practice these long tones up to D4 but have had little real use for any notes above high A. Good luck!
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-04-29 02:49
It also helps to think the target pitch in your head before playing the note.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-04-29 03:24
Damn - Dee got in before me - but as with any musical instrument (or voice for that matter) "hearing the pitch" in your mind's ear first is half the battle.
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Author: Bob
Date: 2002-04-30 15:18
I can appreciate the challenge but is there any other reason?
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Author: Kat
Date: 2002-04-30 16:55
Bob asks if there's any other reason...
Well when I first learned those fingerings (around 9th grade...20-some years ago), I used this to impress and frighten the other clarinetists... ;-)
Actually, there is one orchestral piece which goes up to that really really high C (sorry I don't know its official designation). The Variaciones Concertantes by Alberto Ginastera has a run for the clarinet part starting on low G (I think) and ending up on that C. When I played it in college I did it on a D clarinet. That's what my teach told me to do...hehe...made it a lot easier, since those ultra-altissimo notes are so chancy!
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-04-30 22:45
I have heard a clarinet concerto, don't know which one, where the next to last note is an alti B. The last note itself is a throat G. Quite a jump that I must say I'm glad it's not vice versa.
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Author: Britt
Date: 2002-05-01 02:13
A stronger reed (such as a 3 1/2 or above) can help. Also, keep your throat open and use a lot of air. And, remember, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. It takes lots of practice! Good luck!
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Author: gemmaelizabeth
Date: 2002-05-01 13:11
There is every need to go up to High C. And anyway, if you can get all the way up there, the high notes that come up most often in pieces will not seem as nearly as daunting.
Unluckily for me, at college, we need to do scales all the way up to high the highest note possible in every scale.... so the need to play high C's is always there.
Its horrible, and to be quite honest, I think the clarinet sounds horrendous that far up, but you feel really good if you can!!!
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