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Re: Am I innovative or just lazy?

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-09-20 17:29

For the Ab/Bb trill, play Ab and trill with your left index finger.

I don't like fingers working against each other. It creates tension. Prepare your fingers and make each movement with relaxed fingers -- neat and precise. What you *don't* want is tensing opposing muscles.

Work on the standard-fingering transition by varying the rhythm: 32nd/triple-dotted eighth, then triple-dotted eighth/32nd. Do them both ascending and descending.

Then Ab/Bb/Ab in 32nds, holding the third note. Then Bb/Ab/Bb.

Then G/Ab/Bb/G and Bb/Ab/G/Ab/Bb. Then the Eb scale, straight and in 3rds. Baermann III has bunches of exercises.

Ken Shaw

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