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Topic: 4th Ballade fingering  (Read 2410 times)

Offline mikey6

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4th Ballade fingering
on: August 03, 2006, 12:57:33 AM
I'm having some trouble finding the right ie. comfortable fingering for bar 223.
I have 5/2  1  4/2  5/1  2  5/3  4/2  1  4/2 etc.
and 5/2  1  4/2  5/3  1  4/2  5/3  1 4/2 etc.

I don't like the flip from 5/3 to 4/2 in the 1st one and I can't stretch the 5/3 in the second one (not at speed anyway).  I know everybody's hand is different but some alternate fingering should (hopefully) be helpful.
thanks
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Offline e60m5

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Re: 4th Ballade fingering
Reply #1 on: August 03, 2006, 04:34:22 AM
I'm having some trouble finding the right ie. comfortable fingering for bar 223.
I have 5/2  1  4/2  5/1  2  5/3  4/2  1  4/2 etc.
and 5/2  1  4/2  5/3  1  4/2  5/3  1 4/2 etc.

I don't like the flip from 5/3 to 4/2 in the 1st one and I can't stretch the 5/3 in the second one (not at speed anyway).  I know everybody's hand is different but some alternate fingering should (hopefully) be helpful.
thanks

Could you post a picture of bar 223? 

Offline lung7793

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Re: 4th Ballade fingering
Reply #2 on: August 03, 2006, 06:23:10 AM
I believe these are the rising RH diminished chord figurations in the coda (??)  I use 5/1  2 then 4/1,  5/2,  3  all the way up to the top.  Drop the wrist/accent the 5/2 fingers on the beat, this may help.  It's tricky, just takes some repetition.  Hope this helps!

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Re: 4th Ballade fingering
Reply #3 on: August 03, 2006, 10:41:31 PM
I take all single notes into L.H., so the R.H. has 4/1-5/2 all the way up. The L.H. fingering is 5-4-1-5-4-1, etc.

Offline mikey6

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Re: 4th Ballade fingering
Reply #4 on: August 04, 2006, 01:03:10 AM
Could you post a picture of bar 223? 
Sorry, I actually don't know how to do that, but it's the bar Lung mentioned.
I take all single notes into L.H., so the R.H. has 4/1-5/2 all the way up. The L.H. fingering is 5-4-1-5-4-1, etc.
That's different, I'll have a muck around with that - well....with all of the suggestions.  thanks guys.
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Offline maxy

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Re: 4th Ballade fingering
Reply #5 on: August 04, 2006, 08:32:17 PM
I take all single notes into L.H., so the R.H. has 4/1-5/2 all the way up. The L.H. fingering is 5-4-1-5-4-1, etc.

Brilliant!  when I think of all the time I spent on 5/2  1  4/2  5/3  1  4/2  5/3  1 4/2   ...
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