Author: Piccolo_Clarinet
Date: 2018-12-28 20:39
I am a third-year clarinet player in my middle school wind ensemble. Since I'm first chair, my band director decided that I should learn the Eb Clarinet over winter break since some of the songs we will be playing will have an Eb Clarinet part. After two days of getting used to it, I checked SmartMusic to see if my band director posted any songs we might play for our next concert. One of them had an Eb Clarinet part, so I decided to try it. The song was a concert band arrangement of the "Barber of Seville Overture." There were a lot of altissimo notes, the highest being only like a double G above the staff. I'm used to that because my band director sometimes throws hard pieces at us that have lots of altissimo notes. Anyways, I knew those notes would be written a perfect fourth higher for a Bb clarinet. I just never knew those notes would be so piercing, loud, and annoying. Near the end of the song, an unbearable headache was forming from those squeals people call notes. Is this normal? How will I be able to practice? Should I stop playing the Eb Clarinet?
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