Fixing First Finger Problems - FluteTips 166
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2024
- Many of my new students in my private studio and even my college students come to me with a first finger problem. By first finger problem, I mean that they leave their first finger down for a D, and for an E flat.
Some students leave the first finger down only when they are coming down to these notes. On the way up to these notes, the first finger correctly stays up. Other students leave the first finger down all the time.
What’s the big deal, you ask? When you’re on the 4th line D, or the 4th space Eb, if your first finger is down, you are playing the wrong note. I don’t even have to be looking at you to hear that it is the wrong note. Shocking, I know! But I used to play these wrong notes too.
This is a problem that you can fix with the middle register exercise in Taffanel & Gaubert number 7.
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Great advice for those of us without a teacher over our shoulders and who have convinced ourselves there is no real difference. It's also difficult for those playing other woodwinds with similar but not exactly the same fingering systems. Saxophone and clarinet for myself.
Yes, I think doublers have this problem a lot. Take a listen and when you identify the incorrect sound it makes you won't want to keep it down anymore.
I had this problem...45 years ago😅 a good teacher helped me fixing it! Thanks for good and patient teachers👍🏻
Hooray for good teachers. I too had this problem that got fixed because a teacher would not let me get away with it. I agree with you and patient teachers.
this is so beneficial video, thank you so much ☺️👍 greetings from Turkey🇹🇷
Hi Murat! How is the weather in Turkey today? I am glad that this video is helpful to you. Do you have a first finger problem?
@@DoctorFlute Hi, today is rainy, as you know here is autumn☺️ Yeap!! sometimes I have got to first finger problem, and I must say that I don't know to music note😊 I have learned to play flute myself, and I only use to my ears for playing flute. ☺️☺️
It is great that you have learned to play by ear. RUclips can certainly teach a lot of things!
@@DoctorFlute yes, you are right👍 youtube and esprcially you are ☺️👍 thank you so much Dr.Flute 🙏
You are very welcome!
I don't have a 1st finger problem, but your etude suggestion helped me with the D, E, and F# changes in Bach Suite #2! I was having a hard time getting those fast transitions with the 3 notes and after doing #7 etude every day, now those passages don't bother me as much anymore! :)
Glad to be helpful. #7 is such a good exercise for lots of reasons.
As a relative beginner I often make the opposite mistake of lifting the 1. finger playing E natural after having gotten the E flat into muscle memory :-)
I've had a couple students with that issue as well. You can fix it without too many issues. Don't give up.
Hmmm.... I'm now at minute 2:38 and I'm still wondering which finger is the "first" finger.... ah, at 4:47 she lifts up a finger, I suppose it's that one... odd how English doesn't have names for them...
I see the issue! Hmm what should I call that finger? Do you have a name that would work better?
@@DoctorFlute Isn't it the left index finger? But never mind, it's just my ignorance. It dawned on me later that when you have those little charts that show which hole is to be closed and which isn't the holes are often numbered, and the one in question gets the number one. I must say, when I realised this I was a bit embarrassed about my post.
No shame! I literally think of that finger as number one on the flute. But you are correct, to be more literal I should say left index finger.
There is finger numbering method for learning the fingerings for each note. Look at any flute note fingering diagram. Number 1(first) is the index finger of the left hand.