I went all the way until my first private lesson in college using the "fake" fingerings for every note except for altissimo f and g. My private lessons instructor looked very astonished that I had gotten that far using such "weird" fingerings 😂

Thank you! Geez, I really learned something here. I really appreciate your practice tips.

The altissimo fingerings - I practically never use the "small-hole-fingerings". There are other, more suitable and and usable ones, variating from one bass clarinet to another, and I present those in my clip. Good to know both ones.

That's awesome, but now I'm scared of how fast I have to play this etude.

Best rendition of that cadenza I've heard.

Thank you so much , I've been wondering about fake fingerings , and how high they can actually get on clarinet and bass clarinet

The key word here is “alternative”. There is no such a thing as a fake fingering, most particularly in the altissimo and even altississimo range as all those fingerings are imperfect harmonics of the fundamentals. The most commonly taught fingerings are simply the closest to the perfect tuning. It is this same thinking that has prevented many of the clarinet technological advances in the 20th and 21st centuries (eg Marchi and Stubbing keys). People are to attached to the traditional fingerings.

I wish I'd thought to ask you to play a few studies in high school. Never heard my private lesson teacher play a note on the bass clarinet (though I heard from upperclassmen that was probably a good thing), and had some weird excerpts when I was doing state auditions. Great performance of #35.

Mike, what mic do you use to record these videos and where abouts is it placed in relation to the bass clarinet? sounds awesome as always! 🙂

Fantastic! Thank you!

WOW!! Excellent lesson! Can you use those fake fingerings on the Soprano Bb clarinet too?

You are awesome! I love how you can fly in the upper stratosphere on your bass. I play the Eb clarinet and bass clarinet I can't get past the g above the staff unless it is in a run then I can hit my a. When I had a repair on my thumb rest done, the repair guy tested it. No problem. I play a Jupiter 675 he loved the tone and how the clarinet responded. It's just disheartening where I can hit the high g on the Eb with no problem and I can barely hit hit the first g above the staff on my bass.

I would also love to see some reviews about Bb clarinets. Bb clarinet prices are also very high and people would like help finding affordable options. There are a lot of affordable options that should really get attention. Uebel, Royal Global, Ridenour, Kessler Custom, and Backun have some really affordable professional-quality models. All of those brands have models that are of comparable quality to clarinets from some of the larger brands. Ridenour has an extremely affordable student model that is apparently the same design as his standard pro model acoustically. It is about $600 for it.

I live in Louisiana, and I'm getting ready for my LMEA auditions for all state (though it got moved back due to Hurricane Ida) and honor band. I don't know why it never occurred to me that there are similar things in other states. For my audition, the slow piece is also a Rose etude: number 22 in E flat major. It's really pretty, and I'm really enjoying playing it. I'm mainly just having problems with the fast piece since I can't find any full recordings of it. The only information given on the sheet music is that it's by Müller, number 27, and in A major. Anyway, to get back to what the video was actually about, I find fake fingerings very interesting. When I first started exploring altissimo notes, I looked online for a fingering chart and there are so many different fingerings! It's really cool to me how many different finger combinations can be used to play the same note

Add the top trill key for the ‘fake’ F as in 1st clarinet Daphnis. Not sure if this works on the bass. Haven’t checked, didn’t want to take out my bass

Mike - Thanks as always, very informative and entertaining! One thing, though - both times you give the "correct" fingering chart for low altissimo D, it shows that the RH middle finger key (B/F#) should be depressed. But that's a (slightly damped) C#, isn't it? (occurs at 4:28 and again at 6:21). Speaking of fake fingerings 😉

Came for ear spasm ,didn’t expect a excellent play through of region etudes

I had a question what is your favorite bass clarinet and what do you think is the best model

On my Chinese low C instrument I can use throat and trill keys to get up to G. I'd probably not use those much, if at all though.. On my old Vito resotone instrument the high B and C of the clarion register are "dead", but I can get them to speak clearly and in tune by extending the altissimo downwards, so the "fake fingering" becomes the fingering of choice here. These fingerings do not work at all on the low C instrument. In the altissimo above G or G# I'm not sure what the "unfake fingerings" are. I developed my own, under the guidance of a teacher, by a process of trial and error considering sound quality, tuning and ergonomics - most of the fingering diagrams I've found don't work well on my instrument.

Ty

Compare to the confusion of altissimo on saxophone, where everything above high F is, at best, an ad hoc "standard", and anything from A on up varies dramatically from one instrument to the next.

Does anyone have an altissimo fingering chart?

wait that’s my all region music this year!

Region etude this year omg

does any one know what type of bass clarinet a beginner should use

super bass clarinet!!!

Tough to get it all in tune.

What is the stand you're using for the iPad?

What happened to the black bass clarinet? Are you just playing a spare one?

we just call these alt fingerings

Zimmerman