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Alternate Fingering Chart for Boehm-System Clarinet

Clarion Register: B4 to C6

This fingering chart includes both basic fingerings and alternatives that are more appropriate in
some passages. Some alternate fingerings are designed for fast passages, while others modify
the tone, color, or pitch at normal and extreme dynamic levels. These fingerings apply to all
sizes of Boehm-system clarinet unless specified otherwise. There is also an alternate fingering
chart for Boehm-system alto, bass, and contrabass clarinet, which includes additional alternate
chalumeau and altissimo fingerings for those models. The clarion register fingerings for these
low models are given below.

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Note Written Fingering Description Src.
B4 Use in combination
C5 with fingerings using
RT 123E|123
right little finger or no
little fingers.
Use in combination
RT 123|123E with fingerings using
left little finger or no
little fingers.
Use in combination
RT 123E|123F
with C5 .

A---|1--- Trill fingering with A4.

R A---|2--- Trill fingering with

Bb4.
Suitable for sustained
notes. Gives a more RT
RT A123E|123
open sound than basic WR
fingering.
RT A123|123E Suitable for sustained RT
notes. Gives a more WR
 open sound than basic
fingering.
Suitable for sustained
notes. Gives a more RT
RT A123E|123F
open sound than basic WR
fingering.
Use in combination
RT 123|123F with fingerings using
left little finger or no
little fingers.
Use in combination
with fingerings using
B4 RT 123F|123
right little finger or no
C5 little fingers.

R A---|1--- Trill fingering with

Bb4.
Trill fingering with
R A---|12--- Bb4, more in tune than EM
previous fingering.
Use in combination
with fingerings using
RT 123F#|123
right little finger or no
little fingers.
C5 Use in combination
D5 RT 123|123F# with fingerings using
left little finger or no
little fingers.
Use in combination
RT 123F#|123F
with C5 .

D5 RT 123|123 Basic.

RT 123|123G# Basic.

For models with LH

D5 G# key, use in
E5 combination with
RT 123G#|123
fingerings using right
little finger or no little
fingers.
E5
RT 123|12- Basic.
F5

E5
RT 123|1-- Basic.
F5

F5 RT 123|-2- Basic.
G5
Chromatic, use in
RT 123|1- B- combination with Bb4
or F5 .
RT 123|--3 Use in combination
with D5 .
G5 RT 123|--- Basic.

RT 123C#|--- Basic.
G5 Use in combination
A5 with fingerings
RT 12-|12-
involving the right
hand fingers.

A5 RT 12-|--- Basic.

RT 12-|4--- Basic.

Chromatic and trill

fingering, use in
RT 12Eb-|--- combination with D4
and A5 .
Trill fingering with
RT -23C#|--- Ab5 .
Use in combination
A5 RT 1--|1-- with fingerings
B5 involving RH 1.
Sharp, use for facility
RT 1--|-2- in combination with
fingerings involving
RH 2.
For 7-ring models. Use
RT 1-3|--- in combination with
G5 .

RT 1–3|123F For ppp entrances. GK

RT 1--|--- Basic.
B5
C6 Use in combination
RT –23F#|123 with lower altissimo
notes.
B5 RT ---|--- Basic.
C6
Useful for pp attacks
RT --3|4123 and upward skips from GK
D5 .
Suitable for large
RT –––|123 interval skips, such as TP
with D5 , and for pp.
Slightly sharp. Good
RT 12Eb–|34––– for ff. Useful in TP
combination with Bb5.

RT 123|123G# For legato slurring

from D6. GK

RT –23|123 Good intonation and

NL2
good for ff.
 RT –23|123G# Good intonation and NL2
good for ff.
For bass clarinet. Use
RT 023|123G# in combination with AR2
C 6, D6, and E 6.
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