{"id":97,"date":"2014-02-25T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:12:39","slug":"quarter-tone-fingering-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/quarter-tone-fingering-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter-Tone Fingering Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fingeringchart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-459 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fingeringchart.png\" alt=\"fingeringchart\" width=\"374\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fingeringchart.png 623w, https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fingeringchart-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/publications\/#bcl_fingeringchart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bass Clarinet Quarter-Tone Fingering Chart, 2nd edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/publications\/#cl_fingeringchart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarinet Quarter-Tone Fingering Chart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I set out with the task of writing a fingering chart for quarter-tones for the bass clarinet. I was playing a lot of music requiring them and it was getting confusing trying to remember them all, so I started writing them down. At the same time, I was playing a lot of music that would go into the extreme altissimo range 6-9 ledger lines up!) that was also requiring memorizing a lot of new fingerings. So, I combined the two efforts and made a quarter-tone fingering chart for the whole range of the instrument, from Low C to the D-quarter-flat that sits above the 9th ledger line above the staff. <!--more-->This was mainly a resource for myself, but I also uploaded it to my webserver and shared the link with colleagues. I knew some people were using it, but I didn&#8217;t realize that it was actually getting spread on its own too. The pdf would show up on Google searches and apparently made its way around. I discovered it this past summer at the ICA ClarinetFest this summer in Assisi when I met contemporary clarinetist and composer Eric Mandat, who already knew of me because he uses the fingering chart and gives it to his students! I was already in the process of creating a new chart for Bb clarinet, and took the opportunity to do some updating and reformatting of the bass clarinet chart as well. So now, here they are, extreme range quarter-tone fingering charts for clarinet and bass clarinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I set out with the task of writing a fingering chart for quarter-tones for the bass clarinet. I was playing a lot of music requiring them and it was getting confusing trying to remember them all, so I started writing them down. At the same time, I was playing a lot of music that would go into the extreme altissimo range 6-9 ledger lines up!) that was also requiring memorizing a lot of new fingerings. So, I combined the two efforts and made a quarter-tone fingering chart for the whole range of the instrument, from Low C to the D-quarter-flat that sits above the 9th ledger line above the staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonalder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}