Author: Bigno16
Date: 2006-06-13 21:46
(I've read the "Flying Fingers" thread.)
My teacher recently told me to concentrate on keeping my fingers as close to the keys as possible and that it would improve my good technique even more. The problem with this is, of course, the pinky fingers on both hands. He says that he likes to keep the pinky fingers on the keys as much as possible (perhaps all the time). But I am finding this very difficult to do and can't really even imagine myself doing it without thinking about it. It seems that even without the clarinet, if I put down the first 3 fingers (especially the ring finger), the pinky seems to have a natural tendency to move up.
So for instance, say I'm moving down a scale starting from G on top of the staff while trying to keep the right pinky (the left too but that is irrelevant right now) on one of the keys that it is associated with, most always the C key. It is fine when going from G to F, going from F to E I feel a slight bit more difficulty, and then going from E to D (putting down the ring finger) is the huge problem. It is extremely difficult to keep my pinky on the key because as soon as I put my ring finger down, it seems that the pinky just wants to move up. Perhaps it is because that ring finger is the weakest and least independent of all the fingers?
Do the pinky fingers naturally do this or is this just a problem was probably just never noticed and never fixed?
Does anyone else experience this or have in the past? It's really only my pinky fingers that seem to "fly" at times during my playing, so will it really slow me down?
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