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Topic: Chopin's Ocean: fingering?  (Read 1454 times)

Offline mikomasr

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Chopin's Ocean: fingering?
on: September 03, 2013, 12:54:27 PM
Hello,

I'm just starting to learn this piece. In the second bar, I'm wondering what fingering to use for the right-hand middle note.
Obviously I can only play this very slowly at this stage, and it feels most natural to go up using my second finger on the black key, and go back down using the third (so that the angle of the wrist is oriented in the direction of the movement). But obviously I can't tell if this will still work at full speed. Also it might be confusing to switch from 2 to 3 once I will have to add the left hand...

So how do you do it?

Thanks!

Offline mikomasr

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Re: Chopin's Ocean: fingering?
Reply #1 on: September 03, 2013, 12:55:39 PM
By the way, I do not have a teacher.

Offline prestoconfuocco

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Re: Chopin's Ocean: fingering?
Reply #2 on: September 03, 2013, 03:46:05 PM
I wouldn't recommend you to change the finger half-way thorugh, it's just confusing. (And very uncomfortable at high speeds!)
Most people use the third finger, but I actually found the second finger more comfortable - it leaves your third finger free, so you can quickly put on the F key in the next bar.
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Offline xdjuicebox

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Re: Chopin's Ocean: fingering?
Reply #3 on: September 11, 2013, 10:36:56 PM
Break the passage up into chords. Can you jump between the chords easily? That is the test of good fingering.
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