Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2007-08-31 03:30
Something struck my attention...maybe it's a factor and maybe not. The impression I received when reading your description of reaching for the long B is of all of a sudden having to put so many fingers down at once. That, of course, is what has to happen. But I wonder if it's being made more difficult because of having the fingers too far away from the keys in the first place!
Just tonight in a lesson I was teaching my student (her hands finally grew enough to make this a possibility now) to think of economizing motion, by having the hands rounded and fingers curled and the pad of the fingers just barely above the open tone holes, for exactly that reason...so when she has to reach for a long B or C after playing a G, A or Bb, then the fingers are right there and there's no chance of missing the keys or not completely covering the tone holes.
Just a thought, there are so many issues that could come into play here.
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