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Author: OboeAtHeart
Date: 2005-11-10 01:06
Anyone have a reliable set of fourth octave chromatic fingerings for a Bb Leblanc Concerto?
Looking to play a four octave chromatic scale (from low E to the E above the E above the staff. I think that's E6.) at an audition for a joke, but need fingerings that work and aren't awkward to get to.
PS. What kind of stupid is this; they let a trombone playing band director pick the music for clarinet all district tryouts this year.
Sheesh.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-11-10 01:55
Purchase a good fingering text (Ridenour, Sim, etc...) It's a good investment.
Try all the possible fingerings (ex: Ab6 has more than 20 possibilities) and note which particular ones work with your set -up.
In a pinch you could also consult Tim Reichart's online woodwind fingering guide:
http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/
Although Tim has worked hard to eliminate the fingering mistakes (there are still a few) it should serve your purposes ...GBK
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2005-11-10 05:54
fingerings that "work" all the way up to high E? Good luck with that. I'm sure it's possible for someone out there, but for me things start to get unstable around B, with each above it increasingly hard to play reliably, if at all. All fingerings are awkward up there.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Alexis
Date: 2005-11-10 07:22
why not try a quarter-tone scale?
That's quite impressive and slightly less painful for you to practice.
To be honest, I haven't met many people who would be confident about doing a four octave chromatic scale. Especially problematic I imagine would be getting out Eb and E.
If it works though, I want your reeds...
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Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2005-11-11 07:26
Why not the "woodwind"´s fingering guide?! It´s reliable, it really is, and yes, Alex is right, everything up there is more or less awkward- until you get used to it, that is. The woodwinds of our ensemble often have to flit around in the 4th ocatve (at the time being my high end is f in the 4rth, very seldomly f# sounds,but not reliably), and it works, like any other octave it´s a matter of practice (and, the highest notes need a little pampering, completely new reeds won´t hit them reliably or at all, and wellused ones either).
Markus
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Author: bass9396
Date: 2005-12-01 00:21
Experimentation is your best course of action. Simply play register slurs with a tuner and start moving up...up...up. You will find that in this state you can move a finger here or there and get what you want, and keep the fingerings accessible. The E you speak of I play as a 1 and 1 fingering on an R-13. I have a student who plays a Concerto and I'll see what she comes up with.
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