Miguel de Maria -> RE: Arpeggio - Help!! (Dec. 23 2005 17:21:56)
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Kieron, the mechanics and technique of the hands is certainly very interesting. The way I play, my fingers have independence but they also work together. For example, when I play tremolo, the sensation is more similiar to a natural grab of a cup, rather than separate movements. It's more like one graduated movement. Of course, to get each finger to sound distinctly, there must be a element of control. Maybe it's more of a mental way of grouping actions, but I usually group or "chunk" them. For more information on "chunking" read Chang's piano book (google those words), a free book on piano technique written by a physicist. Fabulous for people who are into this sort of thing. Chunking is somewhat analogous to how we speak, I guess--we usually think in phrases or sentences, not individual words. If you say "How's it going?" you don't really think How_S_It_Going_?", it's more like how'sitgoing? IF you know what I mean... I practice some of Carlevaro's RH exercises, and in his text he talks about the need for complete independence of the RH hand. But for me, hand position and finger use just doesn't work that simply. Maybe in time... When I play a 6 note arpeggio pimami, the index finger returns to play the 2nd time just in time, describing a fairly slow motion arc, neither short nor long. It doesn't matter if I'm playing pretty slow, say sextuplet at 40 bpm, or sextuplet at 120 bpm...the motion seems to be the same.
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