[Dixielandjazz] High Society

[Russ Guarino]

No one has brought this up, but I find the solo hard to play, not because of the fingering or style, but because I run out of breath.

There are short "commas" in the solo but they go by so fast I can't really get much air. There are a open couple of measures in the
middle, which I believe, were put there to give the soloist a change to catch his breath, but I find myself still struggling for air.

Russ Guarino
breathless clarinet maven.

JDut953944 at aol.com wrote:

> This is the rat's patootie to play.  I am fortunate to have the music  for
> the original solo by Alphonse Picou.  But I have heard other clarinet  players
> do a very minimal version of it, or change the tempo, or just sort of  not play
> the whole thing, yet fit it into the song.  I always thought it  sounded very
> much like the Clarinet Polka and thought it might be fun to combine  the two
> somehow.  I have played High Society in public, so that puts me on  some kind
> of a list, somewhere.  Maybe we shouldn't go there!  I  played it the right
> way though.
>
> Carol, Clarinet
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