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LH exercise

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2024-08-10 21:55
Attachment: l hand exercize.pdf (33k)

I was gratified to see that a couple people found use for the right-hand exercise that kdk posted for me a while back. One commenter asked about a left-hand exercise.

The left hand has more problems to overcome because of the throat tones. Index finger and thumb use tends to pull other fingers into misplacement in one direction, while pinky use tends to pull in another. An exercise to promote accurate finger placement wants to cover both those influences.

I do something like the attached fairly often, though in any exercise I rarely play the thing through (probably should, though). Instead I find the worst spots and work those. The idea is that music is a million miles away, and focus is on feeling where fingers touch (inputs) and separate muscles that control them (outputs.) It's very mechanical.

P.s., mistaking inputs for outputs seems natural, at least in me, and I've worked often on fixing it. That means if a finger keeps missing, the culprit muscle might be quite distant from it.

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