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High Bb

Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-02-25 19:26

Can someone please tell me how to play high Bb? I would like play the scale in 3 octaves.

there are probably tons of ways to play a Bb - just want to know the common way to get myself started.

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Re: High Bb

Author: GBK
Date: 2012-02-25 20:08

Coming from the high A:

[A6]

TR oxx/ooo ((F#/C#)

Go to:

[Bb6]

TR (G#) oxx (C#/G#) / ooo (F#/C#)

or

[Bb6]

R (no thumb) oxx/ ooo (F#/C#)

Many other ways to play high Bb - some better than others

...GBK

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Re: High Bb

Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-02-25 20:13

A couple more ways are:

Sp. Th. xxxC#/G#|xxxF/C

and

Sp. thumb OFF xxx|xxxF/C (useful for clarinets with artic. C#/G#)

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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Re: High Bb

Author: donald
Date: 2012-02-25 20:29

or the middle finger of the left hand on its own.... i remember this being very useful in the Donald Martino "set for clarinet" dn

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Re: High Bb

Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-02-26 22:57

thank you. a couple of them worked. quite flat but i need to work on that.

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Re: High Bb

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2012-02-26 23:52

I use the long high F plus the throat Ab key and the right little finger F/C key.

Ken Shaw

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Re: High Bb

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2012-02-27 02:52

Check out my website on the clarinet fingering chart. I have several good fingerings there as well. ESP eddiesclarinet.com

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