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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
(63 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
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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
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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
(32 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
(334 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
(74 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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