Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-10-21 20:40
Wow, thanks, I feel much better now, I apparently didn't miss the memo, and haven't been playing it wrong all this time. I wondered how everybody was hangin' onto the durn thing, if your thumb is supposed to be hanging in mid-air.
The business about "Rocking" the thumb up onto the octave key, I asked about it a while back, there's a thread around here someplace, because Evelyn Rothwell mentioned it in her book, and the consensus was that that was directed towards people with a thumbplate oboe, which mine isn't, being a Fox. And anyway, I couldn't figure out how to make my thumb "rock" up onto the octave key in the first place, which was what prompted that thread, because my hand just doesn't bend that way.
I've been working on Barret, too, but I thought it might be instructive to go back through some method books, after Susan mentioned last spring that my attack was rather abrupt in my Youtube video that I had up. So I thought it might pay to go "back to basics" a bit. The Hal Leonard series doesn't address much by way of "technique".
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