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Re: Tremolo A#4 to C#5

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2016-05-18 06:03

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Here is a video. Check out the 1st clarinetist's fingering; there may be a clue there of some sort.

Lol. Seems to me they just took it up an octave. I can't hear the correct octave in that part. No biggie. Gets the point across.

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Alexi..don't know if Uncle Sam issues his musicians "A" clarinets (baring maybe the Army's Orchestral players) or if this is allowed, but might you transpose a section of the work around the difficult trill where (if) there's a break, up a half step and play that section, including the trill (now a clarion "B" to "D") on an "A" clarinet?

The 2 measure break you describe at 160 clicks (metronome, not klicks as in kilometers soldier ;-) ) seems too little time to swap clarinets.

I didn't put it as clearly as I should have. My bad. The piece will be played around 110 bpm. The speed of me going back and forth between notes (A# to C#) is around 160, just to put in perspective the previous poster's idea of just working on it. I might be able to work on it one day, but with about 5-10 unique performances a month, with different music for at least half of those, and working up to the fourth of July holiday (a ... shall we say.... holiday of note for us Army bands? lol), I don't think I'll have the time or even really the patience to work it up by next month.

I think I'm gonna just try one of two things. Either bring it up or down an octave and see if it lies well, and if that doesn't work, I'm just gonna ask the tenor or alto saxes to play THAT specific tremolo and let them hit it in the correct octave.

Well, if anything, I got some great ideas. I really do want to try the pak-a-stand idea, as that'll be easy to implement and try out. But if that doesnt work, I'm just gonna play it up or down an octave (more than likely down an octave so it's not too high and shrilly with all those clarinets and flutes)

Alexi

US Army Japan Band

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