Great tutorial Ashlee!!🙏 Ironically where I'm @ on my journey is trying to "break out" of the ⚖️ patterns & adding chromatic notes to construct musical ideas! Once "one" practices the scale fingerings & commits them to memory the next challenge will be to add chromatic notes to them & still have them sound "fluid"!!! That's my "🏔️" to conquer @ the moment!! Keep... Keeping us on our toes!!!🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘
One problem with the "standard" fingering is that it was developed with the goal of teaching children. For better or worse, the standard scales start with the thumb on the tonic. This is OK for most scales, but bear with me: play all the scales in the right hand that include a Bb/A#. You'll find that all of them have the fourth finger playing that note. Note that the Bb/A# is the top of the three black keys. In the left hand, the counterpart to Bb/A# is F#/Gb, the bottom of the three black keys. It would make sense for the fourth finger of the left hand to always play that key. But it doesn't. Scales in two of the keys, D and G, have the third and second finger playing the F#, respectively. It would make sense to alter the fingering so that the fourth finger always plays F#, by starting G with the third finger, and starting D with the second finger. Not only is it pleasingly symmetrical, but it always minimizes the risk of "running out of fingers" when playing scale passages. Hope this makes sense!
this is an interesting thought! It definitely would be simpler for the brain if there were more mirror images… But I wonder what implication it would have on technique? The ability to develop speed? Those types of things :-) great food for thought! Thanks for sharing!
Merci. Playing the scale from D is just like playing the modes of the C Major scale. D Dorian. BTW that demonstration of dropping into the scale and leading with the arm and torso was very graceful looking, and it sounded graceful.
I just think about what black or white keys to play for that scale. & don’t play the other notes. It’s the easiest way. Very simple. People make it too complicated
Watching again as a refresher. Merci.
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One of The best technic tutorial I met!
Thanks for saying so!
Great tutorial Ashlee!!🙏 Ironically where I'm @ on my journey is trying to "break out" of the ⚖️ patterns & adding chromatic notes to construct musical ideas! Once "one" practices the scale fingerings & commits them to memory the next challenge will be to add chromatic notes to them & still have them sound "fluid"!!! That's my "🏔️" to conquer @ the moment!! Keep... Keeping us on our toes!!!🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘
Oh good! That’s great and thanks for saying so! Yes indeed!
One problem with the "standard" fingering is that it was developed with the goal of teaching children. For better or worse, the standard scales start with the thumb on the tonic. This is OK for most scales, but bear with me: play all the scales in the right hand that include a Bb/A#. You'll find that all of them have the fourth finger playing that note. Note that the Bb/A# is the top of the three black keys. In the left hand, the counterpart to Bb/A# is F#/Gb, the bottom of the three black keys. It would make sense for the fourth finger of the left hand to always play that key. But it doesn't. Scales in two of the keys, D and G, have the third and second finger playing the F#, respectively. It would make sense to alter the fingering so that the fourth finger always plays F#, by starting G with the third finger, and starting D with the second finger. Not only is it pleasingly symmetrical, but it always minimizes the risk of "running out of fingers" when playing scale passages. Hope this makes sense!
this is an interesting thought! It definitely would be simpler for the brain if there were more mirror images… But I wonder what implication it would have on technique? The ability to develop speed? Those types of things :-) great food for thought! Thanks for sharing!
Merci. Playing the scale from D is just like playing the modes of the C Major scale. D Dorian.
BTW that demonstration of dropping into the scale and leading with the arm and torso was very graceful looking, and it sounded graceful.
Oh good! Glad you liked the demonstration!
I just think about what black or white keys to play for that scale. & don’t play the other notes. It’s the easiest way. Very simple. People make it too complicated
Interesting
I have trouble playing the G flat and C# minor. My fingers slip off the black keys sometimes
Is there something I can do to keep that from happening?
I know it sounds counterintuitive, but make sure that they are rounded and as much on the edge of the keys as possible.