symmetry is to play always with all the levers and fingerings your instrument provide. Always be aware to change left-right sides and need the easiest way for every musical passage.
Eb-lever left hand Eb-lever right hand
- the Eb-lever left
- the ring for the third left hand finger(fork Eb/Bb)
- the use of the trill- levers
- the supportfinger-technic
gives you many new possibilities to make difficult "passages" easier.
Since Baerman, the great clarinet player, wrote exercises for the change from the chalumeau to clarion, therefore he marked the supportfinger in his exercises with
* ------- * as this is pressing down during this phrase.
For a good technic, the supportfinger is pressing the note (=Lever) during the phrase.
Rena Janßen war unsere Sängerin beim Septett " Swing Affair" und beim Trio "Tri Jazz" über viele Jahre. Das Foto zeigt sie in Action beim Altstadtfest 1995 in Dinslaken. Wir sind sehr dankbar, von vielen mitgeschnittenen Aufnahmen einige unten.
Ihr letzter Auftritt mit der Scala Band fand 2019 im Weseler Kulturhaus statt.
