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mushy fingers

Author: tetiana
Date: 2009-07-30 18:19

Can anyone recommend exercises (on the clarinet or on dry land) to strengthen fingers that are double jointed and "collapse" in the wrong direction? I find that particularly my middle and especially my ring and pinky fingers are slowing down and interfering with my technique for this reason. The problem appears worse when cross fingering is called for. or when the ring and pinky fingers are to work as one (e.g. C#, G#). I do work through Klosé and Jeanjean (Vade Mecum) exercises, and of course scales, scales and more scales.

Any advice would be appreciated.

tetiana

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Re: mushy fingers

Author: Alfred
Date: 2009-07-30 18:24

Repeat thread?

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Re: mushy fingers

Author: tetiana
Date: 2009-07-30 18:29

Yes, sorry - one of my mushy fingers went into overdrive. I asked Marc (via separate email) to delete the duplicate.

tetiana

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Re: mushy fingers

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-07-30 18:36

Here are two useful threads:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=291142&t=291043 and

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=20&i=289&t=289 in the section titled COLLAPSING JOINT.

Ken Shaw

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Re: mushy fingers

Author: clariknight
Date: 2009-07-31 01:19

Hi tetiana - I have the same issue. I have just been working on my scales, slowly and making sure the fingers don't collapse. After a couple of weeks of doing this they seem to stay nicely curved for most of my playing - from slow to fast passages.

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