5. In keyboard work, fingers are numbered like this:
6. It is easy to see that if you have a three-note pattern of adjacent keys to play, you have three different finger groups from which to choose (adjacent keys are generally played by adjacent fingers).
RH: 1 2 3 (or 3 2 1); 2 3 4 (or 4 3 2); 3 4 5 (or 5 4 3)
LH: 3 2 1 (or 1 2 3); etc.
What will be true of four adjacent keys? Five adjacent keys?
7. Return to items
1.a. and b. and play again using
logical fingering. What fingering would you use in the last measure of item 1.a.? Why is this fingering principle different from the one in item 6?
