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 were our Vocalist with Septett the " Swing Affair" and with Trio "Tri Jazz" over many years. the picture is from Altstadtfest 1995 in Dinslaken NRW. Rena is unforgotten , we are very thankfull playing with her.
Her last session with Scala Band was 2019 iin Weseler Kulturhaus Scala. Listen at mp3 below
