If anyone knows how to hit high A on the clarinet, please email me. I need to know because in Band we`re playing a piece called Planets - Mars. I have the solo and I`m not sure what the fingering is. I can play high G..but I don`t know high A. Thanks

if you are talking about the A that is one ledger line aove the staff, then the fingering is

register key, thumb
RH 1 2

and thats it, just lift your ring finger up when playing a G and thats an A. lift your middle finger up for a B, and just thumb and register key is high C. if you want higher just im me, or look for some fingering charts online
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and high A flat, play it like the middle C#, but with the register key, or a high G with the little key right under the bottom ring of the upper joint, and right above the 3rd line C key on the right side

My friend had to play that last semester and her clarinet teacher told her that you finger it like the high E (reg+thumb RH 2 + 3) then you flip it up an overtone which makes it an A. It`s pretty hard to do. Good luck.

Hey,people`s thanks for responding..but I was referring to the note an octave higher than the ones that you`re referring to.

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you play a high g (octave key and rh 3) and lift a finger. the fingerings are simple but to make the note come out may be hard

gosh, what was i on. of course you are talking about the 4th A. i find it wasy to play that on with octave, LH 2,3 and then the C#/F# key you play with your right pinkie. it will probably come out as an airy E, butif i kind roll your lower lip in, or put your lower bottom teeth on the reed, it will come out. its a fun note to play

omg, its not that hard to explain. Finger a high E but bite it a little bit and overblow

for A

Hi,
The fingerings are on this site, this link shows a chart that will tell you how to get up to a high A up to a high C!!!!! This is the octave you are talking about. It`s called the Altissimo Register.

http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/clarinet/cl_tr2_3.html

Just out of curiosity, why do you need to get so high? Very few composers write so high? Is it a transposed flute or piccolo part?

Actually there is a place in Richard Wagner "Die Meistersinger"-ouverture, where the original clarinet part reaches altissimo A. I think I`ve seen several clarinet parts which goes to the A, but that is the one I remember :-D

In John Barnes Chance`s Variations on a Korean Folk Song, the first part has an Altissimo A-flat Right in the middle of it. They did "run" up to it, though.

I have seen that chart in a book before, and I tried the Altissimo "C" and could only get to like the "B"