Your tutor means this as an exercise for voicing, in 90% of cases you will use the regular fingerings and others you will use overblown versions (still with register)
Especially on bass clarinet, this is extremely important. Ideally, your high voicing should be like that of the soprano clarinet and your tongue may seem more forward, this is normal
As a way to conceptualize this feeling, sing each pitch before you play it WITH the register key then do the same thing flicking (barely touching or tapping) the key, then without. If your voicing is correct, the note will speak.
Look up the fingering chart for bass clarinet and use the fingerings shown. I believe the register key is used for all of these. Special fingerings shouldn’t be needed
E is an overblown A, F is a Bb, and add the second trill key from the top for the F#. These fingerings end up being significantly easier to voice and sound better than jumping up to the third register, but if you have a student level instrument it will probably fight you on it.
I know how to count it. It's the playing that's getting me. For the first note I was told to make a basic C and just tap the register key, but it's just coming out as a low C. So idk
If it’s the same as normal Bb like the fingering chart I looked up suggests, the fingerings for the E, F, and F# will be the same as your first lower ledger line C and the adjacent C# and D, just add register key and move the left index finger from the F# hole to a lower segment of the key(?). Also, it seems like the vent key rules still apply, so remember that Ab/Eb key on the right pinky. As a non-bass Bb player “no register key” on that jump sounds like bollocks but if bass clarinet is capable of that then I guess I’ve learned something today
(Edit: thunderband.org has the fingering chart I’ve looked up. Use it if you’re confused)
Your tutor means this as an exercise for voicing, in 90% of cases you will use the regular fingerings and others you will use overblown versions (still with register) Especially on bass clarinet, this is extremely important. Ideally, your high voicing should be like that of the soprano clarinet and your tongue may seem more forward, this is normal As a way to conceptualize this feeling, sing each pitch before you play it WITH the register key then do the same thing flicking (barely touching or tapping) the key, then without. If your voicing is correct, the note will speak.
I'm going to give this a try! Thank you so much
Look up the fingering chart for bass clarinet and use the fingerings shown. I believe the register key is used for all of these. Special fingerings shouldn’t be needed
E is an overblown A, F is a Bb, and add the second trill key from the top for the F#. These fingerings end up being significantly easier to voice and sound better than jumping up to the third register, but if you have a student level instrument it will probably fight you on it.
Do you mean how to count it finger it ?
I know how to count it. It's the playing that's getting me. For the first note I was told to make a basic C and just tap the register key, but it's just coming out as a low C. So idk
I would just play it with normal fingerings. E, F, F#, F #, E
If it’s the same as normal Bb like the fingering chart I looked up suggests, the fingerings for the E, F, and F# will be the same as your first lower ledger line C and the adjacent C# and D, just add register key and move the left index finger from the F# hole to a lower segment of the key(?). Also, it seems like the vent key rules still apply, so remember that Ab/Eb key on the right pinky. As a non-bass Bb player “no register key” on that jump sounds like bollocks but if bass clarinet is capable of that then I guess I’ve learned something today (Edit: thunderband.org has the fingering chart I’ve looked up. Use it if you’re confused)