Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2016-05-31 13:53
Roxann, it was really a thought experiment. But, to explain a little more:
If you play bottom F and then throat F, all your fingers come up at the same speed, and without any gap, if you do it accurately.
Now just alter the timing a little bit, so that the 'bottom' fingers come up slightly before the top fingers. You get intermediate notes, and with a little practice, a fast scale. It's a bit like undoing a zip, or peeling off a strip of Velcro, if you like.
What I was getting at is that the speed of each individual finger need have nothing to do with the speed of the scale. No THING moves fast; rather, it's the 'phase' of the finger movement that moves fast. And THAT realisation helps you to see that throwing a lot of energy at a fast passage, though tempting, may not be the way to go. In many cases you need to practise the TIMING of your finger movements, not their speed.
Tony
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