Clarinet “B for Bulls Eye and Both Pinkies”

To accelerate learning for B above the break, I put 1/4” round color coding labels on both pinky keys. Students learn that B is the bulls eye of the music staff and played with both pinkies’.

Michel Nadeau
Burr Intermediate School
East Northport, NY

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