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Re: Fantasy fingering

Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-08-25 23:28

"What did you think you 'should' have been doing?"

Planning ahead and getting the right fingers in the right place at the right time perhaps. But I do this a lot on sax as well - holding a note and changing the fingering of that note to get to the next note easier, and making sure the changeover is smooth and the note still sounds the same - eg. changing from xxx|xo,o to xxx|oxo.

I have had players comment on why I do this, I just answer 'because I feel like doing it and it makes the next bit easier'. But these are from people that adhere to their fingering charts as if their life depends on them.

Yeah I know there aren't hard and fast rules in everything, and we all do what's easiest for us.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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