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Topic: Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio  (Read 5345 times)

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Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio
on: March 16, 2013, 03:34:51 PM
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Re: Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio
Reply #1 on: March 16, 2013, 03:38:21 PM
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Offline outin

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Re: Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio
Reply #2 on: March 16, 2013, 03:57:43 PM
You got me quite confused...the standard fingering is 1-2-3-1
If you can't make the 3-1 comfortably you just "jump" a little.

How much you go between the black keys depends on your hand and what you are playing I guess.

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Re: Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio
Reply #3 on: March 16, 2013, 04:56:19 PM
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Re: Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio
Reply #4 on: March 16, 2013, 05:15:20 PM
Well now you've repeated 1235 and you're still confusing us.

Is this what you mean?

C1 E2 G3 C1 E2 G3 C5

if you are doing two octaves. I think that's the fingering most people use, in fact it's hard to imagine anybody who finds it easier to use a different fingering. As for inversions, with C major I guess there are different options. For example with first inversion you could do

E1 G2 C4 E1 etc

or E2 G3 C1 E2 etc

But it's really more illuminating to talk about other keys. There it can get a little trickier.

Have a great flight!

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Re: Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio
Reply #5 on: March 17, 2013, 02:43:33 AM
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Re: Fingering Options for the C Major Apegio
Reply #6 on: April 02, 2013, 08:30:36 PM
I think another fingering you could consider is 2-3-1-2, for the stretch between G and C, but that's up to you
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