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Re: Transposition

Author: Tony F
Date: 2019-04-28 18:41

I find this business of having to use a chart to work out how to play notes a bit puzzling. Certainly when you begin to learn your way around the clarinet you need a fingering chart, but in a fairly short period you should have developed sufficient familiarity with the instrument that finger placement becomes automatic. I would expect a student to be able to be able to easily place their fingers for the standard fingerings of any note in the chalameau and clarion registers and to be able to name the note after perhaps 4 lessons. Some achieve this much sooner. If you know the finger placement for the natural notes then the fingering for the sharps and flats should be instinctive. The notes follow a logical progression up and down the instrument and there are a limited number of methods for for playing sharps and flats.

Tony F.

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