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Author: clarinetplayer21
Date: 2015-06-26 05:25
Does anyone know how to do this? I have some sheet music where i have to bend pitches up and down (C and F above the staff) i can do it going down good and easy but i can't figure out how to do it up. I know Its possible as i have heard it being done before on recordings of the sheet music its written on.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2015-06-26 05:46
I do it by rolling my lips in and slightly increasing the lip pressure.
Tony F.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-06-26 06:22
You know, I never actually thought about this. I think what I would do is finger the next note up (C# and F# respectively) and lip those down to start the natural versions. If you need to go bellow the natural version of those notes, you should still be able to lip down to that.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: Dibbs
Date: 2015-06-26 12:40
How far do you need to bend them?
If it's just a little bit then possibly by sliding the lowermost finger off its hole. If there's a ring there you'll need to keep the ring down or you'll get a jump in pitch.
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2015-06-26 13:49
Great solutions above. Remember that generally speaking, we (clarinettists) play at the top of the instrument's pitch, so there isn't much room above, but plenty to bend down to.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-06-26 18:12
My initial thought about this was just that, a thought, and it was very much as you suggest about the thumb for the "C" or 'next finger' for the high "F."
But when I actually tried that in practice, for the "C" I just got a fuzzy transition to the high "D." And there was a similar result with picking up the next finger for other high notes.
It seems that if you want a "slide," then you need to be "in one" to start (like being in the middle of a glissando).
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2015-06-26 18:34
I wonder...If you ease up on the breath pressure/speed of air at the end of each note and dropping your jaw a titch, the note will go a bit flat. Maybe that's enough as it looks like you have a lot of them to play in a very short period of time.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-06-26 19:23
As I suspected as far as sliding goes. Make sure the composer didn't just have in mind to do quick chromatic figures.
............Paul Aviles
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Author: clarinetplayer21
Date: 2015-06-26 19:35
he is the link to the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPxm6dkJX0 throught it bending pitches down can be heard but at about !0:45 you can here them bending pitches up. its same place in the music i posted the picture.
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Author: Johan H Nilsson
Date: 2015-06-26 22:06
When I try it, sliding the thumb from C6 to C#6 and D6 is both easy and sounds ok. If you slide on top of the thumb ring (downwards or to the sides) you get a glissando to C#6. Sliding the thumb upwards onto the register key also lifts the ring and gives a D6.
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Author: clarinetplayer21
Date: 2015-06-26 22:36
That seems to work. one note down. one to go. does anyone know how to bend the pitch up for F6? its possible. i never figured it out.
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2015-06-26 23:32
Finger the usual F, slide the LH ring finger off the tone hole.
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![[C6]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/c6.gif)
you should be able to slide your left thumb a little and release it entirely to reach D6. Sliding to altissimo will not work. For the F5 ![[F5]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/f5.gif)
you can slide the right index finger. Or was it F6 ![[F6]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/f6.gif)
? (Look under the link smileys/notes on how to specify tones)
