More adventures in fixed fingering
Nov. 21st, 2006 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teleribI think I must be missing something important in how "fixed fingering" is defined. I mean, maybe not - I have a book, "Early Music for the Wire Harp" that is exactly glueing one finger per string. Then again, my current teacher doesn't think much of the book.
The trouble is, it is very, very clumsy to play repeated notes with the same finger. Many published harp music books show the technique, but... ever since I've been taught to strike with different fingers, I've found my accuracy and speed have gone way up. See how fast you can tap one finger, then see how fast you can twiddle two fingers. I can get way more beats per minute with two fingers.
I sat down with one of my cantigas last night and found it fit within eight notes... but immediately got hung up on the repeated notes problem. I can keep my hands and fingers in about the same location, but I still don't have predictable note-to-finger assignments. Looks like it's the long list of ornaments in the end... perhaps there will be patterns and commonalities that'll make it slightly less tedious.
The trouble is, it is very, very clumsy to play repeated notes with the same finger. Many published harp music books show the technique, but... ever since I've been taught to strike with different fingers, I've found my accuracy and speed have gone way up. See how fast you can tap one finger, then see how fast you can twiddle two fingers. I can get way more beats per minute with two fingers.
I sat down with one of my cantigas last night and found it fit within eight notes... but immediately got hung up on the repeated notes problem. I can keep my hands and fingers in about the same location, but I still don't have predictable note-to-finger assignments. Looks like it's the long list of ornaments in the end... perhaps there will be patterns and commonalities that'll make it slightly less tedious.
