How to Play the Clarinet with Trills

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Hi! My name is Leslie Burnick and I’m speaking on behalf of expertvillage.com. And today I’m going to talk a little bit about trills on the clarinet. Again this is generally something would be more for advanced players. But I just want to explain generally about trills. Some composers will want for sound effect of a trill in their music, just to kind of, add a little bit more character to the piece. With the trill you are almost always going to go either up a half step or whole step. So if a trill is going up a half step say from a G to a G sharp, it would sound like this. So the composer would want just a half step trill, sometimes they would want a whole step trill, in which case you go from a G to an A. So you hear the difference from G to G sharp and a G to an A. Now on the clarinet, some of the extra side keys that you see are used to help facilitate better trills. In other words, if you have from a third line B flat to a C trill, that would be very difficult because you would be have to be using all of your fingers like this. It would just be virtually impossible. So you would hold the B flat and then you are actually going to hit the top two side keys and that is your trill fingering for the B flat to a C and it is much easier.

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