Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2014-09-07 16:50
While I won't claim to play this at a performance level, I believe that if you can make the interval sound good going slow, you can eventually make it sound good going fast. This and similar intervals have presented a several problems. First is making sure both notes have a good sound that's as similar as possible. Second is accurate finger timing in the transition.
Third problem is the closing of the LH3 hole. For some reason, on both my Buffet R13s, closing that hole when slurring to altissimo (not just D, also C#, E, etc) tends to make a popping sound, an unsmoothness. Since other holes don't have this problem, I suspect it has to do with there not being a raised rim around the LH3 hole. If I can sort of gently close the hole, as opposed to "slamming" the finger into seated closure, while still preserving timing, then the popping is avoided.
I dislike the sound of the open D alternate fingering, so it seems worth it to spend time doing this interval (and similar ones) very slowly, until it's reliably smooth, and then gradually speeding up.
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