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Topic: What do you think guys, is this a good fingering? I need second opinion.  (Read 1390 times)

Offline musicioso

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Hey guys,

These the fingering a piano teacher wrote on my sheet. What do you guys think, is it ok to start with it?

Any comment/suggestion is most welcome.

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(Upper fingering is for the right hand, lower is for the left hand)


Offline musicioso

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nobody?  ???

Offline j_menz

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Depending on the speed, it doesn't look like the fingering I'd use, but you need to try it out for yourself.  Any fingering that works (at speed and with control) is a good fingering.

I don't understand why repeated fingers on the same note are OK in the right but not in the left.
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Seems fine. Are you preparing to play Bach?
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."

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I don't understand why repeated fingers on the same note are OK in the right but not in the left.

Thanks for your reply. Exactly, i dont understand that neither. Why is that? Can anybody enlighten me? Otherwise i have to doubt the expertise of my teacher.






@ chopin2015

Thank you for your reply. No, i cant play Bach pieces yet, because of the hand independence difficulty. Maybe i will play some bach in the future. But now i do this stuff to develop good fingering for the kind of improvisations i do.
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