How to Play the D Major and E-flat Major Scales with New Fingering

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[@jackmooradian2858]

Gonna go try these out now

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

This seems like it's an outgrowth of your suggestions in the Bach Sightreading book for arpeggios. You mentioned that one should practice the traditional fingering but also try other fingers.

[@nigelhart3897]

I've always been of the opinion that part of scale practice is to aid development of hand independence. Using thumbs together might make playing scales with both hands easier but you lose out on other benefits. Playing music rarely involves playing scales in both hands, but almost always involves playing different parts in each hand. Learning your scales by playing different fingerings with each hand gives the added benefit of scale practice of developing hand independence (in my humble opinion.)

[@BachScholar]

But that all comes when you play real pieces of music. Isolating scales just as exercises is often different than real music. One needs to be able to adapt to any small variance in fingering. For example, just because you finger a scale as an academic exercise a certain way doesn't mean you must play that fingering every time you have that scale in a piece of music. Actually, I often don't play the same fingering. For example, in Clementi Op. 36 No. 3 the opening C major scale in the RH I play 1234-1234 instead of the standard or new fingerings. Playing the thumbs together as an exercise does not mean one is unable to play the thumbs not together in real music. (I think this came out right.) Hand independence in scale practice will really only happen when played in contrary motion. And what do you know.....playing the C, G, D, A, E major scales with the traditional fingering practices hand independence less than the new system, since the thumbs land together. In the new system, these five scales played in contrary motion does not have the thumbs playing together at the same time. Just an added benefit of the new system!

[@jackmooradian2858]

I have practiced these scales (and all others) using your method for a day or so and I notice a couple things.
First, because both hands are playing with thumbs at the same time, I only have to look at one of my hands to know that the other is doing the right fingering. The two notes, say E and B, serve as a homebase in case I get lost in the scale.
I also noticed that starting the scale is a bit more difficult with your method. I think it is because when prompted to play something in D major, say, we think to put our hand in D position, encapsulated by thumb and pinky. It seems less natural to start a scale like D on different fingers. For this reason, I always hesitate for a second before playing the scale.
Otherwise, the scale is playing smoothly. I wonder if I might normalize it for myself, I think it has pros and cons.