Fingering Help.

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[bernhard]

Keep in mind that fingering is – most of the times – highly personal and will depend on musical context. So this is just a suggestion. Change it if you don’t like it.

First bar: [124] [125] [135] [124] [125]
Second bar: [123] [124] [123] [124] [125]

How to practise:

1.   Start by playing just the bottom note (with thumb). This will ingrain the hand shift.

2.   Then play just the top note. This will ingrain the finger changes and fine tune the hand displacement.

3.   Alternate between (1) and (2). Once it is thoroughly memorised, keep alterntating (1) and (2), but this time when you go through the bottom notes with the thumb, []imagine[/]the top notes (with the correct fingers). Then reverse and play the top notes while imagining the top notes.

4.   Now play the bottom and top notes together. You may need to slow down a bit. Once you can do it at speed and smoothly, start imagining the middle notes.

5.   Play the chords as written.

6.   There are eight chords: the ideal number for repeated chord-groups. Do it.

7.   Finally do rhythm variations.

It should take about 10 – 15 minutes to complete the above. After that you will know these two bars for life. If next day you cannot remember it just repeat steps 1 – 7 again. Do that everyday for as long as it takes for you to memorise and play it perfectly (should not take more then 3 – 4 days, and I would not be surprised if it only took one 15 minute session).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.