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Re: Preferred Pinkie Alternation

Author: allencole
Date: 2022-08-17 19:29

To kdk: (sorry, I neglected to quote your reply for clarity)

They look just like the stuff I create in Sibelius, and most of them look pretty good. For most of these kids--despite the fact that they're in high school--I'd say that these are probably their introduction to the D scale. It's the only straight scale requiring pinkie alternation. The fingering notation for chromatic scale looks good.

Oddly enough, they DO mark LH B/RH C for C & G scales, and I have had some students who alternate pinkies on those scales and on chromatic rather than hold the C key down and simply release the B or C# key.

When teaching technique to a student who doesn't have private instruction, I think it's important to consider how much that student may misunderstand or misinterpret, and what kind of ripple effect it might have.

Allen Cole

Post Edited (2022-08-17 19:37)

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