Comments for About Fingerings of Chord Inversions

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About Fingerings of Chord Inversions

Fixing your hand on the piano...
by: David from www.piano-play-it.com

Hey Tryder,

In the cases you've mentioned you neglect the third and fifth fingers.
The second first inversion is the only one that is played correctly according to the exercises.

It's important to me that you understand it's not a battle (I know you were kidding of course but the're a point). It's up to you how you play. If you're happy I'm happy.

However, if you want to make your fifth finger stronger, to improve the independence of your third and fourth fingers and adjust the balance of your (so called crippled) you're going to lose something with the options you mentioned.

If you're hand looks "cripled" as you call it means you have to work on the fixation of your hand. If you'll post a video of you postioning your hand I'll be able to help you...

As for the left hand
You should be using 5-3-1, 5-3-1, 5-2-1 for the root, 1st inversions and 2nd inversion respectively.

Good Luck!

Dave

Round 2 (Ding,Ding,Ding)!
by: TRYDER

I hear you David but, I'm going to have to disagree with what you said about me neglecting my 1st & forth finger. Because If the thumb is to be considered as the 1st finger(for the right hand),and I happen to use the formula: 1,2,4-1,2,5-1,2,4, than I don't believe I neglect my 1st nor my forth finger for that matter.

I noticed that by using the original formula: 1,3,5,-1,2,5,-1,3,5, you don't use the forth. Don't get me wrong, I can do this formula, It's just that it makes my hands look & feel crippled(no offense)! And when I switch on over to the third inversion, I find it hard to not press another note by accident because I'm trying to practice placing my forth finger below out of the way.

Would you be kind enough to show or tell me the formula you would use for the left hand(the original way of course)? I just want to make sure I'm doing it right if I'm to practice in this fashion.

Thanx!

The Importance of using the correct piano fingerings
by: David from www.piano-play-it.com

Hi Tryder,

To begin with, We're currently going through the whole piano forum and I believe there are almost no questions that haven't been answered by now.

However, Please inform me if other questions of you haven't been answered and I'll get back to them o.k?

As far as Chord Inversion Piano Fingerings concern we have to distinguish between two cases.

It's important to keep the original fingering I mentioned when PRACTICING. Why? Because from what you write I see you have the tendency to neglect your first and third fingers.

By practicing the correct fingering you're going to learn to use ALL of your fingers and train them to have equal abilities as much as possible.

Second, the fourth finger is the most problematic finger in our hands. It is the less independent one since its tendon is attached to the third finger.
Therefore we use it less often in the case of chord inversions.

The thumb and the second fingers are strong and there's a big gap between them which will allow us to play more comfortably.

As for PLAYING music the case is different.
When you move from one chord to a different chord there are various ways to perform the change in comfortable ways as far as piano fingerings concern.

However, sometimes we tend to adopt habbits that seem comfortable to us at first but if we're going to learn new ways that will appear strange at first, later we will discover they helped us to develope and make better music.

If a certain piano fingering is comfortable it doesn't mean it's the best one. It's more important to move smoothly to the next fingering and to always put music first and hear a chord with a good sound (The fourth finger will cause a weaker sound for one of the notes of the chord for example).

Do you get the idea? Hope this helps

David
from www.piano-play-it.com

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