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Topic: Estampes Pagodes Debussy Fingering Help!!!! (Read 7225 times)

draganpower

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Estampes Pagodes Debussy Fingering Help!!!!

on: May 18, 2013, 08:15:06 AM

So I started learning this piece on my own. I am going to take piano lessons in the fall with my previous piano teacher but that is ways away. I want to start on it now.

In bar 3 and 5 and similar patterns throughout the piece. I can't reach the notes in my right hand with f sharp, g sharp and another sharp an octave higher and the the 16th note passage. The only think I could think of is playing the f sharp and g sharp with my thumb while I play the 16th note passage on top.

However that is really awkward. Is there an easier way to play it?

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Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C# major Bk I BWV 848
Debussy - Ballade
Debussy Pagodes
Chopin - Nocturne Opus 27 no. 1

birba

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Re: Estampes Pagodes Debussy Fingering Help!!!!

Reply #1 on: May 18, 2013, 09:25:24 AM

That's exactly the way it's done.