Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
A Daily Dose of Bach? – Access his Complete Scores on Piano Street

Johann Sebastian Bach’s keyboard music is some of the most essential repertoire for pianists, although he lived before the era of the modern piano. And you don’t need to look any further than Piano Street: our library of sheet music by Bach – 250 pieces waiting to be explored – is now complete. Read more

Pages: [1] Go Down

Topic: Thumbs Over Method (Read 2231 times)

zhiliang

PS Silver Member
Full Member
Posts: 204

Thumbs Over Method

on: June 17, 2004, 06:03:31 AM

Hi, can anyone explain to me how to execute the correct thumbs over method? Does it actually means having a very short skip when passing the thumb over, with the hands moving in that direction to accomodate the thumb coming down?

Also, is it "literally" not actually passing the thumb over the 3rd or 4th finger?

Zhiliang

Logged

-- arthur rubinstein --

goalevan

PS Silver Member
Full Member
Posts: 241

Re: Thumbs Over Method

Reply #1 on: June 17, 2004, 07:36:51 AM

yep it's keeping your thumb outside of your 2nd finger and moving your whole hand. it felt awkward and slow for me at first but the pause is almost unnoticeable for me now. someone should do a short video of the movement cause this gets asked so much :0