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Topic: Fingering for a chromatic run...  (Read 2007 times)

Offline pseudopianist

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Fingering for a chromatic run...
on: September 11, 2004, 02:16:17 PM
I wrote this piece about a month ago and I looked over it yesterday and made some changes and I added this chromatic run... but I don't know what fingers to use  :-[

Help?

Here is a sibelius file for it:

ftp://pogotrucci:[email protected]/Minute.sib

Bar 16... help? :)
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Re: Fingering for a chromatic run...
Reply #1 on: September 13, 2004, 07:28:59 PM
I'v got an older vertion fo sib. Can you save it as midi file and then post it agin. thanks
Sharma Yelverton

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Re: Fingering for a chromatic run...
Reply #2 on: September 14, 2004, 12:09:45 AM
It is just an ordinary chromatic scale from F to F... I suck at chromatics. Wanna know if I'm doing it wrong

ftp://pogotrucci:[email protected]/Minute.mid
Whisky and Messiaen

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Re: Fingering for a chromatic run...
Reply #3 on: September 14, 2004, 11:43:35 PM
Ok,
I think your chormatic run starts on a C and decends one octave. if so you would start with your 4th finger on the top C and decend acordingly (4) 3 2  1 3 1 3 213132
                                                    c   b b*a etc...
(*=flat)

Ok? I liked the peice by the wa. i can see some obvious romantic influences. Have you writen anything else?
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Re: Fingering for a chromatic run...
Reply #4 on: September 15, 2004, 12:10:49 AM
Thank you and double thank you. I started my 2nd year of piano recently so I'm not familar with chromatic fingersettings.  ;D

I've written a few more things mostly short stuff as you can see in your other thread. Thank you again. :)
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Re: Fingering for a chromatic run...
Reply #5 on: September 18, 2004, 01:26:54 AM
cool
I only bin playin for bout 4 years. but I was plesed to lern the old chromatic fingering early on.
glad i could be of some help
Sharma Yelverton
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