Fingering Advice

[julianc]

Hi,

     So here's two parts of a piece I've been trying to learn (John Maul's Paganoogie Variations).
There's no fingering suggestions given in the score which makes an already difficult song even more so. I was wondering if anyone could give me some fingering advice. For the first measure, its mainly the left hand bass line that I'm having trouble finding a good fingering for. I've got the treble. And as for the second measure, its the part highlighted in red that seems impossible to find a workable fingering for: many fingerings work at speeds 170 beats per minute (in 4/4) and slower but the piece is set at 208 beats per minute (in 4/4) and at that speed I haven't found any fingerings which work.

Thanks

[j_menz]

Your score is wrong about the speed. minim=208 is 416 beats per minute and is neither a boogie woogie tempo or what is written on the original score.

It should be crotchet = 105, so if you have a fingering that works at 170 there is absolutely no reason to change it.

Whoever did up your score made a simple error (doubling when they should have halved when going from crotchet based mm to minim base)

[julianc]

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately it doesn't help because it was I who made the error
in writing up that score. It should indeed read crochet = 105. I do not have a fingering that works for crochet = 105. I do for half of 170 (crochet = 85) but that's not enough. So my original post (which I have just corrected) still holds, and anyone who can help me with the fingering will be much appreciated.

[j_menz]

OK.

In the first one, you need 1 and 5 for the first two notes in the second group of four in each bar, so don't stray much from that position.  After those two notes, 4-3-2-1 takes you up to the C in the next measure, down 2-3 and then up to one and you're back where you started. The fingering works on a different set of notes to the phrasing in this instance.  The opening note isn't a 1 as you depict, but probably a 3, or two if you prefer.

In the second one, 24 35 24 23 (then 15 23 15 23)

[julianc]

I look forward to trying this out. Hope it works!

Thanks for taking the time to help.