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Re: Rest left pinky on key?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-05-20 18:48

Well, from those videos, I can mostly that the fingers where possible should find their way to the next key they will need to press - anticipating action beforehand. I didn't get the idea that he was suggesting using LH E/B and/or RH F/C as anchors. Maybe I need to watch again.

Interesting to me, I paid closer attention than usual to what I was doing with respect to anticipating the notes. I realized that I naturally do this (at least, I was never taught to do it explicitly) and that when I get into trouble in a sight-reading exercise, it's almost always because my fingers are not where they need to be for the upcoming notes and are consequently late. So, if my understanding of Tom's point in the video is the importance of anticipation, I think that's almost a given beyond a certain level of technical demand. The goal of keeping fingers from flying out by keeping them close to or even touching keys before needing to press them is, likewise, to an extent the result of efficient finger position. Although, I have noticed that sometimes having fingers too close to open holes can cause problems as well - for example I have from time to time produced bad effects by not lifting my ring fingers far enough to clear the tone holes or the RH rings.

I don't see that anchoring on LH E/B by resting on it as a normal finger position is part of this. But I haven't read Tom's book and there may be other videos that make that point more clearly.

Karl

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