![]() ![]() After a couple of days of doing this, my fingers were zinging away on the fingerboard.Īvoid all exaggerated, and especially all superfluous movements of the fingers. This was not particularly original in itself, but the specifics were more detailed and systematic, and the emphasis was on maintaining the musical content and sound, and a consistent bow, even under tempo. ![]() ![]() Read: Left-hand agility in Dont Etude op.35 no.8Īt the beginning of the lesson I confessed that with fast pieces like the Wieniawski I expected myself to fail, but with unerring patience Burton Kaplan showed me how to work on tidying it up, using rhythms and a metronome. Read: Replacing shifts with a stretch: Daniil Shafran’s left-hand technique Read: 3 simple trill exercises for players and teachers So fast passages feel slower to a player with faster-moving fingers than they do to someone with slower-moving fingers, even if both players use exactly the same tempo. *The longer the time between each finger action, the slower the passage feels *The later the finger drops or lifts, the longer the time between each finger action. *The faster the finger drops on to the string or lifts from it, the later the dropping or lifting must begin. Playing with fast fingers involves a sort of waiting before moving a finger, then a fast movement of that finger. In other words, you can play with fast fingers in slow passages as well as in fast ones. ‘Fast fingers’ refers to the speed of the left-hand fingers towards or away from the string, not the speed of the notes. Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, The Strad, December 2003 Instead of lifting the fingers vertically between notes, I pull my fingers off sideways, making a little plucking sound. The speed at impact is the highest: this gives clarity to the sound. You will often hear me preach to my students ‘Avoid hitting the fingerboard or merely placing the fingers: drop them.’ Fingers should follow Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation, beginning slowly and speeding up as gravity causes them to accelerate towards the fingerboard. Discover more Technique articles like this in The Strad Playing HubĬorrect finger action is also important for facility. ![]()
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