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theperson108
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My private lesson teacher was giving me a lesson about tone in the altissimo register (g above the staff and anything higher, I believe) and was playing some of the hig notes. Now, in my fingering section of a book I have, It says the highest note on the clarinet was a G (the one that requires like 5 ledger lines). But, my teacher seemed to be going a few notes higher than that. Maybe it was because she was oging chromatic that it looked and sounded liek that, but can you go higher than the highest g?
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Flute_Manic021
(14 points)
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Many players choose to have founded, on there own, fingerings for going to higher notes, your book probaly doesn't publish those fingerings, or maby it just published the fingerings that the book believes students can achieve.
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kato
(66 points)
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i have heard that the clarinet has one of the largest ranges out of all wind instruments.
the range can go above that g to at least a c - thats an octave above the thumb & register key c.
the notes above the g you mention are uncommon and becomming difficult to play, as a result, it seems they dont appear on most books.
i have heard that good clarinettists can play above that c even, but im am not yet capable of it.
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clarisax_man
(21 points)
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The funny thing about wind instruments (wood or brass) is that they can usually go much higher than officially written for. I have heard people play stuff a lot higher than their instruments are suposed to go. My uncle plays tuba and he can go super high. I have heard a professional saxophone player play higher than any fingering chart. You really don't need to know any higher than a high "G" until collage (or at least, that's what I heard.) I haven't seen any higher in my music and I am the first chair in my section at school.
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freakthmusicgeek
(12 points)
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In regards to what Clarisax_man said, I have seen a lot of stuff written above that high G. It's mostly in solo works, but I have seen it quite a few times in this past year.
But for this topic, I have not yet seen anything written above the double high c, but I have seen A's, Bb's and B naturals. They are a bitch to play at first, but once you get them, they aren't that bad.
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prodigyNYC
(27 points)
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Kalman Opperman's "The New Extended Working Range for Clarinet" illustrates fingerings up to and including the G above the G above high C. (This would be the G sitting on top of the 7th ledger line above the staff), giving a total of four octaves and a minor third.
Professional orchestra clarinetists (or those wishing to become one) should be comfortable playing fluidly up to the 2nd D above high C (needed, for example, in the Ginastera Variations). There are also several concerti that demand fluid technique up to high C, and occasionally high C#.
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Klarinet88
(32 points)
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Like Kato said some clarinettist can play the c"" (an octave above the thumb & register key c). But they are seldom used and not described in most student books. There are special fingerings for these notes.
I don't know the exact fingerings, but I do know that you have to take the fingerings of an other note and then what we call 'blow over' in Dutch. It's the same with flutes. In the second octave you have the same fingerings, so you'll have to blow different.
But as you might've already guessed, you can't define the highest notes on most instruments. With a good embouchure you can do lots of things books don't describe.
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gordo209
(189 points)
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Well its gonna be hard for me to say this correctly, but...at camp the section leaderfor clarinets (a college student) told us (middle school students) that you CAN actually go higher than a G and not by changing your fingers. Its kinda like making the note WAY and i mean WAAAAAAY sharp or flat that it actually makes it a different not. Its wierd and VERY hard for beginning players or how ever good you are, IT IS HARD!
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tmheimer
(43 points)
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I have somewhere a special fingering chart that goes up to F above the high G you mention (2 Fs above thumb/register C). Weird stuff, but with the right reed you can actually get up there.
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laeta_puella
(344 points)
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the highest i've gotten is the C 6ish lines (never actually seen it written/counting accurately requires too much effort) above the staff... on bass clarinet. i haven't messed around that high on soprano, because a) its obnoxiously high and b) i don't play soprano that often currently. but since i have a low C bass, it's really fun to startle people with a 4 octave C scale. 
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jvanullen
(172 points)
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The standard range for a high school age student is up to a G. Past that a C is the highest you will ever really see, though I know that just for fun, I've gotten to an E above that...Not pretty sounding at all!
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gordo209
(189 points)
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http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/clarinet/cl_bas_3.html
Here are fingering charts for the clarinet. It has higher notes than the C. Way higher. It goes to the highest note yet found for the clarinet...an A, which is the 9th line above the staff...high huh? But it is very hard to get up there and requires a lot of practice to even get to an A, the one right above the Middle/High School published G. But this is good information for the future and professionals. Hope this helps.
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TrumpCard
(49 points)
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I don't think any instrument has a set range, but I may be wrong. Your book is probably listing the notes that the writer feels is capable of someone at the level the book was made for(The book probably says Beginner, ntermediate or Advanced somewhere on it). If you can keep increasing or decreasing your air pressure, air used, and embrochure, you can get higher and higher or lower and lower respectively. I think I have read there was a trumpet player who played 5 octaves aboves the staff, and the recommended range for Highschool students is up to the C right above the staff. So all it takes is practice etc. to keep getting higher, but it is important that you do not strain yourself and don't just focus on the uppermost register.
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Clindian
(3 points)
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i've heard of people going higher than the clarinet fingerings in the books. my teacher said that people can make the clarinet sound higher and make notes higher than it and can make it sound lower than low E by changing the clarinet some way
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gordo209
(189 points)
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And what do you mean by change it? You can't CHANGE the clarinet. I tried messing around and pulling the clarinet as far as possible where it bearly touches the cork, but that wasnt all that smart. It just got extremely sharp and it didnt turn to a different key how i was expecting it to. But i was just playing around.
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