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Re: Fingering Question K622

Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-04-22 18:21

I too take the B4 with the left pinky Karl. It's just that the preceding G#4 serves to move that very left pinky away from its mark, no matter how delicately one seeks to play the G#4, with respect to the fact that the left hand wrist will need to rotate clockwise immediately after this G#4 to hit the B4.

Like you said, different players handle it differently. I was just inspired to ask because of having just watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_uru6k1hAp

This was a winning audition to the Youtube Orchestra of 2011. The player seems to take the B4 with the right pinky, leading me to wonder.

For me, this is a hard phrase to master, and an easy one to lose if I don't practice it regularly: much like my tennis serve.

I agree that right hand pinky down, albeit on the "C" lever--in fact right hand down helps make the B4, by both stabilizing the clarinet, and having to only worry about each of the fingers on the left hand meeting their exact mark, and not, for example, touching the left hand chromatic key, or missing a tone hole, or losing a note going from a throat tone G#4 to an all fingers down B4.

Thanks.

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