Left or right?!? Difficult fingering please help.

[samwoodall]

Hi im struggling with this little passage, should my right hand just be playing just the C# B and A?
Or is it supposed to be doing everything on the trebel clef. Could anyone suggest fingering for this passage?(just the second line) Thanks

[faulty_damper]

Starting at del segno:
|: 4 - 4 - 4 | 4 - 3 - 2 | 4 - 3 - 2 | 4 - 3 - 2 |
|: 1 --------| 1 --------| 1 --------| 2/1 - 2/1|

[samwoodall]

I dont have the reach sadly cant do that, although 4 can stretch to the C# it means 3 cant do anything at all aha. Thanks for the help. would you say it's better for me to learn it using the left hand to play those lower notes( its not exactly busy at that time) OR use my pinky to hit it (playing the B right at the top of the note( hitting the black often!)

really appreciate the swift responce.


# Edit Oh the other option is dropping the D and just playing F and C# sounds quite similar.

[liszt1022]

|: 4 - 4 - 4 | 4 - 3 - 2 | 4 - 3 - 2 | 5 - 4 - 3 |
|: 1 --------| 1 --------| 1 --------| 2/1 - 2/1|

-I don't think faulty_damper really wanted you to use 4-3-2 in the last measure.

[samwoodall]

is it ok to play that B anywhere on the note? like right right right at the top?

[liszt1022]

I'm not sure what you're asking.

[faulty_damper]

Yeah, what Liszt said about my previous fingering suggestion about the last measure.  If you can't reach with the 4, then use 5.  Just how small are your hands?

[iansinclair]

Whatever works... seriously, I think if I were playing that (and I have large hands -- the reaches would be no problem at all!) I would take the lower note(s) on the treble clef with my left hand (it's notes in the last measure; D and F).  Not because I couldn't reach them, but because being exceedingly lazy it would be easier to get a volume/tone contrast between the long held supporting notes and the top melodic line.

There is no rule (thank goodness; I'm heartily tired of rules) which says that treble clef = right hand only and bass clef = left hand only!

[samwoodall]

Yeah it's an awkward quite a stretch for me. I have crippled my hand practising, it's getting easier though, Yeah childs hands im afraid