![]() ![]() That´s why this is interesting to me, and confusing. My teacher also made a remark about my arm. ![]() But.It´s apparent now how messed up my right arm is from 18 years of playing on pure will and a grain of talent. By now I´ve worked my way through Beethovens easy G minor sonata and the Inventions. She got me started with Hanon, curved fingers and easy Burgmuller pieces and it felt humiliating at first, but I coped and I started experiencing that I gained more control. I had never practiced scales ever (actually I probably never ever practiced, just played). I started taking classical lessons this spring and my teacher went through what I suppose is the thumb under technique. I am a jazzpianist and I was constantly doing scales with no regards to fingering. *you think i've gone too far now? - see how that feels - and transfer the feeling to everything else! what = perfection can be a simple chord in a piece by mozart played like alberti bass with the left hand. as though practicing this or that is going to = perfection. they practice too perfectionistically the wrong way. that is why some people get carpel tunnels and other things. piano playing shouldn't be uncomfortable or painful. a fingering is bad when you force up your wrist and look like you are in pain. I say - whatever keeps your hand in the flattest and best position. who wants to get stuck in a scalular passage and have their fingers tangled up in a knot. ![]() however, for classically trained pianists (which tend to be obsessive-compulsive anyways) - working out a fingering that is repetitive makes sense. If you watch great jazz musicians - they are constnatly doing scales and stuff -a nd rarely care which fingers they are using. if you do both at the same time - you're getting there. sometimes people forget they need to move the hand and worry too much about the fingers. i think bernhard? and others suggested over thumb scales too - which is basically, just letting the thumb be relaxed and not doing anything with it per se. but, there are many ways to approach scales. it makes more sense if one is in love with under thumb technique (which i still am to some extent - but not always) to tuck it under at a closer proximity than a two whole step jump. Dear petter, no i didn't mean all the 'easy' scales - that fit well with 123 1234. ![]()
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