Virtuosity and ease with Scales: How to Practice them!
Scales are one of the most important technical challenges to master! Tune in today to learn unique ways to practice scales to achieve virtuosity and ease in playing them!
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We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like me to focus on?
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Assuming you are keeping your fingers closest to the keys (as opposed to “lifting and dropping”), leading with the elbow in the direction you are going, and not using the Taubman approach of single and double rotating, but using a traditional approach, what is the one most significant recommendation you would make to break through when you hit an impasse on the metronome, and then the scales are no longer even?
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Beethoven 2nd Movement, Op.110 Difficulties:
(1) In D Flat Major section, I tend to build up tensions when I play the whole passage with left-hand crossing and it becomes difficult to maintain coordination(and to not miss notes).
Ravel Scarbo Difficulties:
(2) The Accuracy and relaxation, coordination problems of Thirds with single notes
(3) I found the alternating octaves challenging to play evenly (wrist relaxation) and without missing notes. -
Do you use arm weight with rotation to depress keys or is that something related to Taubman only and not a part of traditional playing? If it is something you teach Im curious to know how to smoothly integrate arm weight into key depression and create a fluid scale instead of relying on finger action solely to depress keys.
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Thank you, Dominic!
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Dominic, do you follow the c major fingering when practicing grouping? Thanks
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hi, how do you get the pdfs for the livestreams? thanks in advance!
