Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2007-01-19 08:01
Arnoldstang wrote:
>> Is a shake an extremely rapid trill? >>
Mr Friedland is using the term to indicate a trill performed using the larger muscles of the wrist, forearm or even the whole arm. It's possible to do this for some trills, though obviously not all.
Using these larger muscles makes faster trills easier, probably because the muscles involved are stronger than finger muscles in comparison with the mass they have to shift. There is nothing inherently wrong with the method, though of course it's true that a too-fast trill can appear wrong in context. (If this is the case, the solution is to do it SLOWER, of course, which is perfectly possible.) The method also probably gets a bad name because you can use it on some 'fake' trills, like the one Mr Friedland mentions, from G to A using the side Bb key, that are not quite in tune.
For a beginner, the most sluggish trills are usually the ones involving RH and LH ring fingers, and the conventional method is unavoidable in these cases.
It's probably best to consider Mr Friedland's criticism as of Karl Leister's judgement rather than of the method itself.
Tony
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