finger legato

[BoliverAllmon]

My teacher showed me finger legato today. It works really great with haydn and Mozart. Adds a pedal feel to the piece without muddying the piece up. Really cool. Has anyone else ever heard of finger legato?

[ako]

Yes, and I love the sound that it achieves. It is a very different sound from relying solely on the pedal.

[TheHammer]

Now, how, wait. Finger legato means opposed to legato with pedal, and you didn't know that one before? Or do you mean legato opposed to some kind of wrist playing? Because the first year in my piano lessons I was only taught to play legato without any pedal. And even later on teacher ALWAYS insisted on first being able to play legato with the fingers, than trying to embellish and enrich the sound with pedal (or it was not possible to play legato without pedal, of course).

So I understand you correctly, that up until now you only used pedal to play legato? Or is Finger legato another special finger technique (hence your comment: does anyone else knows it?) I think I don't get it.

[BoliverAllmon]

crap. I wrote the wrong thing. It is finger pedal. crap yeah finger legato was taught from the get go. maybe that will clear things up. We also talked about pedal legato and rhythmic pedalling all today in class. brain fart there.

boliver

[BoliverAllmon]

I will make a new topic with the write words and lock this one.