How do you play the 12 major scales for clarinet?
It helps to know if you’re being asked for them in CONCERT PITCH or WRITTEN PITCH. If you’re in a full rehearsal and the conductor asks everyone to play a C, then he/she means concert C, not C on each instrument. If everyone played their own C, they would sound at different pitches. On the clarinet, that would be the note D, one full step higher than the concert pitch note. If I were in a clarinet lesson and a teacher asked for the note F, or the F Major scale, I’d take it to mean that they want the actual note F on the clarinet (not Concert F, which would be G on the clarinet). So if you know all your scales, then you just want to be sure of two things: a) Is the conductor talking in Concert Pitch, or in your own notes? b) If it’s Concert Pitch, that you know how to convert to your own notes. This is simple, as I said, because you go up one full step and play the scale beginning on that note. E. g. Concert F Major = G Major on clarinet Concert C Major = D Major on clarinet Concert E f
