Fingering exercises in any key

[drooxy]

Hi everyone,

Is there a set of exercises that could help "feel" the position of notes belonging to major(minor) scales in all keys ? (I am not sure scales help a lot since we always go from fundamental to fundamental...).

Thanks for any suggestion !

Drooxy

[ayahav]

I like doing scales but not going from fundamental to fundamental, going from a random note in the scale to wherever I feel like before I turn back down again. another thing to do is play the scale in the right hand and have the left hand do the same thing but with a delay, so kind of like this:

RH: C  -  D  -  E  -  F  -  G  -  A  -  B  -...........
LH:                C  -  D  -  E  -  F  -  G  -...........

and you can do what you like in the end... I turn back down with the right hand first, and turn with the left hand as well only when it reaches a fundamental. Therefore, you get something like 10ths going up and 6ths going down....

Of course you can try the same thing starting with the LH and then joining with the RH...

[donjuan]

Hi Drooxy,
I like Hanon - "The Virtuoso Pianist" exercises.  There are all kinds of exercises for finger independence, scales, thirds, octaves- you name it... Liszt's book of of technical exercises is also pretty good.

The best exercises- in my opinion- are no formal exercises.  Choose music that incorporates the technique you are trying to learn..
donjuan  

[ayahav]

RH: C  -  D  -  E  -  F  -  G  -  A  -  B  -...........
LH:                C  -  D  -  E  -  F  -  G  -...........

(pairs of notes are played simultaneously, so e and c at the same time, for example.)