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Re: My Left Pinkie*

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-04-30 14:26

I also had trouble with a similar jump in Georgie by Emma Johnson. Doing the co-ordination to get to left C from a throat note is quite hard I think.

My teacher is teaching me to keep my fingers really close to the keys so that I only have to move them a tiny bit to lift them up and down. He says economy of movement is really important once I get to the harder music.

The knock-on effect of that is that I'm having to address ergonomic issues in the clarinet, where the position of the keys doesn't match the natural position of my fingers. I'm having little extensions put on here and there, and when I do that, the pressing of keys becomes a reflex rather than a difficult stretch, and feels amazing.

I have always used the left hand C and C# keys, because those were the ones that I learned first. I am only now getting to grips with which key is which, on the right hand pinkie keys, as I work up to my Grade 4 exam.

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