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Piano Board => Student's Corner => Topic started by: pjaul on September 26, 2014, 07:14:04 PM
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Dear Piano Streeters,
I'm currently working on a Rachmaninoff prelude in c minor (op 23 no 7) and would like to hear some of your thoughts regarding fingering.
Look at the second group of 4 sixteenth notes in measure one. The turn figuration (a flat, g, f sharp, g How would you finger this? 4-3-2-1 or 3-1-2-1?
I understand different fingerings a better suited to different hands. Why do you prefer the fingering you prefer?
In measures 5-8, this turn figure is repeated a whole step lower. But it's very different because it's g flat, f, e, f (black, white, white, white; instead of black, white, black white)Would you use the same fingering here as in measures 1-4?
Would you consider this piece to be more of an etude than a prelude? After all, that turn figure is repeated over and over throughout the entire piece and poses major technical difficulties in later passages. For example, virtually all of pages 5-6 in the right hand.
How would you go about practicing this piece?
Thanks every one :)