@@zlwigle6423 It only takes a few months of decent practice to be able to play up to double altissimo E and beyond, actually. Compared to learning proper embouchure, it took much less time, but part of that is probably how easy it is to make the partials come out on bass.
@@tristanwright6223 C6 is pretty fun. The fingering I usually use to consistently hit that is our usual high Bb, which in our key, but using the relative pitch would be Bb 5. The altissimo is really fun to play around with. For me, I found all the fingerings that worked for me through experimentation. There is a guy though if you want to do some real fun altissimo work though. His name is Jason Alder, and he has a website where he has a bass clarinet fingering chart with quarter tones going all the way up to C#7. Give him a look, the website is jasonalder. com. I have the space there because if I recall correctly, UA-cam doesn't like links.
I miss playing the clarinet...I was such a band nerd 13 years ago and now I just feel like how the f**k was I able to read music, much less play an instrument. Kudos to all to whomever stuck with practicing music and playing instruments.
This is ridiculously amazing .0. I play the bass clarinet and I know that it would take decades for me to get THIS good ^ o ^ I love it even more that is in dedication of cats :')
Dear David Bennet Thomas, I used to play bass clarinet in high school for 3 years way back in the early 1980s (though I also played soprano clarinet for 15 years between the ages of 12 - 27). I have never before seen the symbols @ 3:47, 4:14, or 4:36. I used to practice overtones on tenor saxophone a little bit in high school but never saw any notations for them in any music that my teachers threw in front of my face. How do you finger and embouchure these 3 instances above..............?????
@@r5t6y12 I would like the answer to this as well, I've never seen anything like that, or the three lines that connected the half or whole notes in some parts
r5t6y12 For the first overtone it’s the register key and the half hole fingering of throat tone e. Possibly without the half hole. The rest I don’t know.
@David Bennet Thomas Cool piece and stunning performacne. Those harmonics were beautiful! Dmitri and Pierre... any chance Your cats were named after some fellow composers? :D
David, you inspired me to write my own bass clarinet piece (plus electronics): ua-cam.com/video/fcABgUc03_Q/v-deo.html Especially regarding your approach to rhythm and register; it's amazing how high the instrument can go!
@@Fight_me_in_the_dark That's nothing - the cheapest professional Buffet horn (my preferred brand, Selmer doesn't get much cheaper either) starts at 12k and goes up to about 15k new.
+Chloe B I'm about 9 months late with this reply XD but anyways it is another octave called the altissimo range and its a bit complicated like with the clarion register you have your first part using the octave key up to the two ledger line c but after that its the altissimo range of which you have weird fingerings like only the thumb key down and the index and the middle finger key down with a combination of other fingerings but the range is another high c above the two ledger line one! I think that's what the "harmonic fingerings" mean on the fingering chart. Hope this helped!
+Chloe B it kinda is but I guess in a way its kinda like controlled squeaking. if you actually look on Google images for bass clarinet fingering charts you'll find that there are fingerings for the very high c which transposed down correctly are concert Bb5 which is pretty high I'd say. although since I'm switching to bassoon soon bassoons go a bit higher I think up to about E5 to even C6 which is pretty hard to get out from what I've heard but still possible.
+Chloe B haha awesome! I'm pretty excited to learn bassoon because normally in band our Bass clarinets are student models so none are low C sadly but the bassoon has the low note so I'm pretty happy.
Ive been playing bass for upwards of 8 years now,and listen man, hard work beats talent any day, so just practice, build good habits, take advice, don't overwork yourself,try new things
Unless you're time traveling from the 1910s then you're with the minority - all modern bass clarinet music is written in treble clef because they're still clarinets in the clarinet family.
This is amazing. These techniques are ridiculous on a regular clarinet let alone a bass.
MrTorterra111 I know my instrument is great :)
That was a joke btw I ain’t egotistical
Awesome performance! Till' now, I didn't know bass clarinet could go that high
Well I'm a bass clarinet player and it takes practice a lot of practice to get that high
@@zlwigle6423 It only takes a few months of decent practice to be able to play up to double altissimo E and beyond, actually. Compared to learning proper embouchure, it took much less time, but part of that is probably how easy it is to make the partials come out on bass.
Grima I managed to overblow to a sounding C6 the other day, and hit the partial above it, but didnt have a tuner out to find the note sadly
@@tristanwright6223 C6 is pretty fun. The fingering I usually use to consistently hit that is our usual high Bb, which in our key, but using the relative pitch would be Bb 5. The altissimo is really fun to play around with. For me, I found all the fingerings that worked for me through experimentation. There is a guy though if you want to do some real fun altissimo work though. His name is Jason Alder, and he has a website where he has a bass clarinet fingering chart with quarter tones going all the way up to C#7. Give him a look, the website is jasonalder. com. I have the space there because if I recall correctly, UA-cam doesn't like links.
Very impressive! The piece is a lesson in "What can a bass clarinet do?" Great piece and great performance.
I played bass clarinet for 3 years when I was younger. and I miss it so much, such a beautiful sound.
You should buy one!
I miss playing the clarinet...I was such a band nerd 13 years ago and now I just feel like how the f**k was I able to read music, much less play an instrument. Kudos to all to whomever stuck with practicing music and playing instruments.
Hi, bassoon player here. In my band, I sit next to the bass clarinet, and oml I never knew it could go that high.
This is ridiculously amazing .0. I play the bass clarinet and I know that it would take decades for me to get THIS good ^ o ^ I love it even more that is in dedication of cats :')
Great composition and great performance. Thanks for sharing with score!
Beautiful piece/ Touched my heart. Well done!
Great Piece David!
Merci beaucoup pour vos vidéos 💙💫
the guy who is playing this Is insaneee those overtones if thats what there even called holy
Did that person delete there comment lol
beautiful!
Thank you very much; this performance is a lesson in potential...I can hardly wait to see what else you can make this bass clarinet do!!
I love this piece!
Nice piece! Very well played! Thanks!
Beautiful.
I have never heard of this peace, but it is well made
coooollllll!! my mind is blown! 😀😀😀
Brano stupendo e un grandissimo esecutore!
2:48 isn't that the upbeat to the Sacrificial Dance from the Rite of Spring?
its missing a couple notes, and ends on a different note. Still, very similar
This passed the vibe check
Thanks for uploading!
1:44 nice rhapsody in blue
love the piece. but what an awful way to lose your cats. poor babies.
Very nice piece! Sorry for Carla and Mark :(
Love it, thank you.
Tried to play this on my little clarinet.
I play the B-flat clarinet But my band directors letting me switch the bass clarinet
Nice work. I enjoyed it
Very nice!
You’re my inspiration to practice😂❤️
What's the story about the cats?
The vibrato... was that intended? I play sax. When I learned clarinet I had to kill that habit. Lol
Where can I find this piece of music? I really want to play this with my bass clarinet.
Hi, you can get the score directly from me.....my site is www.davidbthomas.com. Thanks for asking!
Hi Jennifer, please send me an email through my site to order this score. Thanks for asking!
Dear David Bennet Thomas, I used to play bass clarinet in high school for 3 years way back in the early 1980s (though I also played soprano clarinet for 15 years between the ages of 12 - 27). I have never before seen the symbols @ 3:47, 4:14, or 4:36.
I used to practice overtones on tenor saxophone a little bit in high school but never saw any notations for them in any music that my teachers threw in front of my face.
How do you finger and embouchure these 3 instances above..............?????
@@r5t6y12 I would like the answer to this as well, I've never seen anything like that, or the three lines that connected the half or whole notes in some parts
r5t6y12 For the first overtone it’s the register key and the half hole fingering of throat tone e. Possibly without the half hole. The rest I don’t know.
A-ma-zing work!
Ive played the bass clarinet for 1 year and hope someday i can play music as fast as that and as high of notes as that good job!
Blue Tiger Is it a very difficult instrument to. Learn to thus far?
You'll also need a professional bass clarinet to get the low notes
Yeah the bass clarinet here is likely either an extended bass or an Eb contralto
The reason I say that is because the regular Bb bass clarinet can only go down to Eb but these notes are as low as E natural
How the heck did you gliss!!??
+Pranav Batra In that upper register its pretty simple to gliss as an exaggerated bend, the real question is how those shakes are done with squeaking
Those high notes! Dear god
Ikr, I can hardly play above the High D
I really enjoyed this piece; captivating, playful, feline. thank you! ...Geez sounds like a eBay review - I apologise...
eccellente esecuzione.dove posso trovare lo spartito?
MUST PLAY THIS!! :D
Hello. How is the first multiphonic after 3:35 (the one notated from E up to the high D) achieved? Thanks.
Monster !
I play bass clarinet and I love this solo but I can't play that high range because I need more practice on the upper register whatever that word is
This reminds me of On Pointe by Anna Danilova
How much is it to buy this piece and where can I buy it?
Thanks Butterman! I sell scores through my site....please contact me through my site and I'll set you up: www.davidbthomas.com
Where i can find this part?
@David Bennet Thomas
Cool piece and stunning performacne. Those harmonics were beautiful!
Dmitri and Pierre... any chance Your cats were named after some fellow composers? :D
David, you inspired me to write my own bass clarinet piece (plus electronics):
ua-cam.com/video/fcABgUc03_Q/v-deo.html
Especially regarding your approach to rhythm and register; it's amazing how high the instrument can go!
1:45 How did he do a smear on bass clarinet? I thought that wasn’t possible cuz there aren’t any holes
Staggering embouchure control and a lot of unorthodox fingering practice.
I tried to play this on my little clarinet, but i couldn't playthe sixteenth note bits.
Fine
do yalls have any idea how much a bass clarinet costs?
jamesha175 Lmao, like 6k to 9k
My professional horn I'm borrowing is 10k used
@@Fight_me_in_the_dark That's nothing - the cheapest professional Buffet horn (my preferred brand, Selmer doesn't get much cheaper either) starts at 12k and goes up to about 15k new.
Did you drop a couple of 32s in the final line? Is that a mistake in the score or a different interpretation?
Patrick Sloan he didn't drop any notes there
How did you play so high????? I can only go as far as the side key and the octave key. Unless its the secondary octave? Teach me your ways :3
+Chloe B I'm about 9 months late with this reply XD but anyways it is another octave called the altissimo range and its a bit complicated like with the clarion register you have your first part using the octave key up to the two ledger line c but after that its the altissimo range of which you have weird fingerings like only the thumb key down and the index and the middle finger key down with a combination of other fingerings but the range is another high c above the two ledger line one! I think that's what the "harmonic fingerings" mean on the fingering chart. Hope this helped!
+Andrew Chavez wow that's gotta be pretty hard. I have improved quite a bit because of my cadet music but never that high
+Chloe B it kinda is but I guess in a way its kinda like controlled squeaking. if you actually look on Google images for bass clarinet fingering charts you'll find that there are fingerings for the very high c which transposed down correctly are concert Bb5 which is pretty high I'd say. although since I'm switching to bassoon soon bassoons go a bit higher I think up to about E5 to even C6 which is pretty hard to get out from what I've heard but still possible.
+Andrew Chavez yikes! I'm excited to learn though!
+Chloe B haha awesome! I'm pretty excited to learn bassoon because normally in band our Bass clarinets are student models so none are low C sadly but the bassoon has the low note so I'm pretty happy.
Which I can play this good. Only been playing for 2 years though
Ive been playing bass for upwards of 8 years now,and listen man, hard work beats talent any day, so just practice, build good habits, take advice, don't overwork yourself,try new things
david
How does one play two notes at once?!
Multiphonics
+Mike B Most of the time it means to pick one. If you are in an ensemble the conductor normally tells you which one to play.
OR
Multiphonics
+Kudukevin1 This has some crazy multiphonics, Mid E to high D without the rest of the notes distorting?! I've got to woodshed MPh again
+LowReedExpert1 yea haha, its crazy
my god…
I play b flat clarinet and tried this song on it to only realize I can’t go that low lol
I can’t even get that high on my regular Clarinet 😳
1:44 epic
it's so difficult ^^;
Sorry about your kitties...
0:44
Purrdendosi ...
biss biggleondo
Also, always you must write the bass clarinet in bass clef more importantly above all!
Unless you're time traveling from the 1910s then you're with the minority - all modern bass clarinet music is written in treble clef because they're still clarinets in the clarinet family.
Amazing!