Ramon Amira -> RE: Sometimes Teachers are Weird! (Dec. 23 2012 6:07:35)
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why was the guy using Segovia's arrangements and then re-fingering them? There is nothing sacrosanct about Segovia’s or anyone else’s fingerings. I learned that from personal experience a long time ago. I started out as a classical guitarist, and I was learning the Sor Twenty Studies. Sor had written hundreds of studies, and Segovia selected twenty of them, published them as a group, and they became famous as the “Sor/Segovia Twenty Studies.” Segovia said that anyone who could play those twenty studies fluently could play anything. Well, Segovia had fingered all twenty, and when I was studying them I followed his fingering scrupulously. In one of them, every single time I came to a certain place, I faltered, and no matter how hard I tried, I could never get it right. Then one day, in frustration, I said to myself – almost guiltily, because I wasn’t supposed to say that – “I wonder what would happen if I used this finger here and that finger there, etc.” So I tried it, and instantly I played it perfectly the first time. The fingering was all wrong – at least for me, though I consider it wrong in general. From that day on, I never paid too much attention to someone else’s fingering, and just worked out my own. Ramon
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