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    | Author: SHSBand Date:   2007-01-12 19:59
 
 I can only find one brand of flash cards for clarinet which shows fingering.  Well, it claims to show fingering but not in any conventional way.  Rather than providing a visual including the keys, it assigns each key a number which you must memorize first, in order to read the fingering.
 
 I cannot find any flash cards with conventional fingering notation.  Can anyone help?
 
 Stay away from the ones made by Notes and Strings Company out of Colorado.
 
 Thanks,
 Nancy
 
 
 
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    | Author: tictactux ★2017 Date:   2007-01-12 20:34
 
 ...print your own: http://www.hochstrasser.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Clarinet.FingeringChart
 
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 Ben
 
 
 
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    | Author: Steve Epstein Date:   2007-01-12 20:37
 
 Ok, I'll venture the dumb question: Why would you want to use flash cards to memorize fingerings? Why not just practice a bit with a fingering chart handy so you can get used to what it feels and sounds like?
 
 Steve Epstein
 
 
 
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    | Author: Steve Epstein Date:   2007-01-12 20:42
 
 tictactux wrote:
 
 > Steve,
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 > ...maybe they're used as a teaching aid?
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 Well, I said I'd venture the dumb question
  but wouldn't it be more cumbersome that way? I mean, you look at a fingering chart, you play the note, you do this as many times as you need to until you internalize the fingering. Unless, she needs to be able to pass a quiz based upon picture recognition. 
 Steve Epstein
 
 
 
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    | Author: Ken Shaw ★2017 Date:   2007-01-12 21:31
 
 Nancy -
 
 If you're trying to learn fingerings, flash cards are the wrong way to do it.  They add a step between seeing the note and playing it.  I began that way, but didn't progress until I learned to skip the intermediate step.  That is, I learned to see a note and make the correct fingering.  You go by how it feels, not how it looks.
 
 As Steve says, the right way is to get a scale book and learn not individual notes but the finger movements necessary to go from one note to another.  You learn to play in "chunks" -- to recognize a series of scale notes and play them in a single gesture -- a series of finger movements.
 
 Music is about moving, not standing still.
 
 Ken Shaw
 
 
 
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    | Author: joeyscl Date:   2007-01-13 05:35
 
 Thats like trying to teach someone how to ride a bike by using flashcards/pictures...
 
 
 
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    | Author: skygardener Date:   2007-01-13 07:36
 
 however, flashcards can be good to help reading- 'quarter note, fermata, slur,' etc.
 
 
 
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    | Author: Gandalfe Date:   2007-01-14 00:58
 
 Also flashcard can be used successfully to learn your chords.  :o)
 
 Jim and Suzy
 
 Pacifica Big Band
 Seattle, Washington
 
 
 
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