trills

[jehangircama]

hi
i'm having some trouble getting the 3-4 and 2-4 trills absolutely even. which are the best exercises for solving this? i've only seen one hannon exercise for this.
thanks

[bearzinthehood]

If you want to play a trill, practice the trill...

[Bob]

You can always make your own up.

Just trill those fingers.   Slow, fast, slow

Or take the part from the original piece and transpose it to all keys.

[getcool]

You can always make your own up.

This is probably the best answer.  Start practicing the trill as slowly as needed to make it perfectly even, then gradually increase the speed as you are able to.  Only practice it faster if you can play it evenly at the faster tempo.

I have by no means mastered the trill, but this is how I am currently practicing them and it seems to be helping.  Also, the trill exercises in Hanon aren't bad, either.

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

When working on trills one has to not work on the speed as much as sound and note accuracy. Practice for an even sound. As a student I recommend Czerny, whose certain excercises adress the trills.

Hope this helps.

[jehangircama]

thanks, and yes, i have started today looking at the czerny

[faulty_damper]

It's a technical issue.  You can use exercises but it will not help much.  Use the rotation of your forearm in conjunction of the fingers to trill.  2-4 trills are perhaps the easiest to play well because they utilize the fingers which are of equal length but they only work if you rotate the forearm.

[jehangircama]

yes, the 2-4 trills are slightly easier. i'm having trouble with the appasionata 1st mvt trills, especially where you have to hold the a chord and trill 4-5 when you have the left hand plaing repeated Cs. but the eveness is the main thing, speed will come eventually.