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Author: FDF
Date: 2012-06-20 20:14
"Finger Pops on Instrument" are called for in John Gibson's arrangement, with apologies to Schumann, of "The Wild (-er) Horseman. Our clarinet choir members were not sure how to "finger pop." Some thought we should "pop" on the bell (technique differs from palms to fingers), some thought we should "pop" the keys without blowing, while others thought we should just tap on the side of the instrument. Each way has a unique sound, but what is the correct way? Maybe John will answer this, but I would appreciate anyone's thoughts or knowledge.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-06-20 20:28
I don't know what John Gibson meant if he didn't include a note about it, but I would assume he means to snap the fingers against their normal tone holes without blowing. You actually get pitches in the percussive sound that results. Are there pitch or fingering indications in that area of the music?
Karl
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Author: FDF
Date: 2012-06-20 20:33
kdk asked, "Are there pitch or fingering indications in that area of the music?"
No, 1/8th notes are indicated below the staff with an x.
Forest
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-06-21 12:58
My grumpy two cents: If a composer asks for a non-standard effect without adding some text to clearly define what he wants and how to get it, then he deserves whatever he gets. And if he did add the text explanation but his publisher deleted it to save space, then he deserves a better publisher!
Lelia
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Post Edited (2012-06-21 12:59)
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2012-06-21 13:42
>>My grumpy two cents: If a composer asks for a non-standard effect without adding some text to clearly define what he wants and how to get it, then he deserves whatever he gets. And if he did add the text explanation but his publisher deleted it to save space, then he deserves a better publisher!
Hi. John Gibson here. I thought I might respond!
What I had in mind was a simple percussive effect of some sort. That little section is a portion of an odd meter rendition of Schumann's "The Wild Horseman". Since I wrote it for flexible instrumentation, it would have been hard to specify notes to use. At the time I thought "finger pops" was clear enough to indicate the sound fingers make when forcefully hitting a tone hole, but considering the confusion, I guess it was not clear. I do certainly deserve whatever effect comes out, but I like to leave some creativity for the player.
This was one of my "freebies" I put on free-scores.com for everyone to download. If you are interested here is the link. http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=20715 I hope you have fun with it!
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: FDF
Date: 2012-06-21 15:10
Thanks for the clarification, John. We are having fun with it, how could we not with meters of 2+2+3 & 3+3+2 and finger pops!
Forest
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-06-22 15:07
Thank you for the explanation! A jazz-playing friend showed me a very different way to do what he called "finger pops," so I would have done something alien to what you want.
His "finger pop" refers to the sound made by putting the knee into the bell of the clarinet to stop it, closing all the tone holes, blowing a very hard breath into the mouthpiece, then simultaneously (suddenly) *inhaling* hard, leaning back to release the knee and springing all the fingers off the keys, leaving nothing from the hands touching the clarinet except the thumb supporting the thumb rest. The result is a weird sort of "WHOP!" noise. If it comes out as open G (more or less; expect it to be out of tune), it's not terribly loud but quite percussive.
For me, most of the time it's not open G; it's a brutal squeak. I think it's consistently on what organ players call the nona-decima, the 19th (excruciatingly high D, in other words), but it's so brief that I'm not even sure about that. My friend's reaction is, "Oh, cool! You can definitely use that!" Uh . . . really? (For what, giving my cat a heart attack?)
Your finger-pops sound more useful, frankly! Thanks again!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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