| Re: Is there a better left hand exercise than the chromatic octaves? |
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Group: rec.music.classical.guitar · Group Profile
Author: JonLorProJonLorPro Date: May 12, 2008 11:25
On May 12, 12:36пїЅam, Octavius yahoo.com> wrote:> I've been doing Segovia's chromatic octaves everyday now for nearly a
> year and have greatly improved my left hand, especially in the areas
> of counterpoint. Is there anything better out there for the left hand?
> Should I move on to scales with three parts?
For further development along the lines of fingered ocatves, see if
you can find "Imitando il Granchio" by Miguel Abloniz. It is a study
in fingered octaves based on Sor themes, which demands and inculcates
fluidity in of octave configurations in positions throughout the most
used portion of the fingerboard, and will do much more for your
facility in various lateral juxtapositions of them and maintenance of
accuracy through small and large shifts than any presentation of them
merely as a chromatic scale.
For other left hand aspects, create your own developments of
independence exercizes further to those of the type found, for
example, in Shearer publications. Do not be dissuaded by any charges,
which are sure to come, that these are "meaningless and worthless".
That is massive ignorance on display. You can decide after for trying
for yourself what has meaning to your development of technique.
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