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#425247 - 12/06/04 08:17 PM WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
Plwatcher Full Member Registered: 10/10/04 Posts: 171 Loc: Atlanta, GA	Hello to all! I had a particular question about measure 28! (This is the PRESTO section!)I'm trying to make a very noticeable contrast between the Allegro section and Presto. Allegro will probably be as slow as M.M. 90 or maybe m.m 95... I heard a recording in which Friedrich Gulda, had such a brillant contrast, that I wanted my piece to be as moving as his was....
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#425248 - 12/06/04 08:25 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
ChopinLives81 500 Post Club Member Registered: 10/10/04 Posts: 947 Loc: New York	Composer please????? _________________________ "A Sorceror of tonality; the piano is my cauldron and the music is my spell, let those who cannot hear my calling die and burn in Hell." Check my videos @: http://www.youtube.com/user/chopinlives81
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#425249 - 12/06/04 08:44 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
signa 8000 Post Club Member Registered: 06/06/04 Posts: 8452 Loc: Ohio, USA	i like the following fingering better, because your RH wouldn't shift at all on bar 28: RH bar 28: 434 5323 1323 4212 \| 1.....
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#425250 - 12/06/04 08:47 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
Plwatcher Full Member Registered: 10/10/04 Posts: 171 Loc: Atlanta, GA	Thanks, for the help! I will do that.....
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#425251 - 12/07/04 08:50 AM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
8ude 2000 Post Club Member Registered: 01/21/04 Posts: 2045	RH 323,4323,1434,5323\| 1434, 5323, 1434, 5323 \|1434 5323 1434 5323 \| 1434, 5323, 1434, 5323 \| 1323, 1545, 1434, 1545 \| 1545, 3212, 5323, 4212 LH 232, 1232, 4232, 1232 \| 4232, 1232, 4232, 1232 \| 4232, 1232, 4232, 1232 \| 4232, 1343, 1343, 2454 \| 3121, 5121, 5121, 5121\| Obviously different hands require different fingerings, but this is the fingering I use and it works pretty well. _________________________ What you are is an accident of birth. What I am, I am through my own efforts. There have been a thousand princes and there will be a thousand more. There is one Beethoven.
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#425252 - 12/07/04 12:40 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
Matthew Collett 500 Post Club Member Registered: 09/15/04 Posts: 536 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand	Quote: Originally posted by Plwatcher: Hello to all! I had a particular question about measure 28! [....] Not only have my left hand trouble, but I'm having trouble deriving a fingering for the left hand. Here are the fingerings I have, and I welcoem suggestions [/b] RH: 323, 4123, 1323, 4123 \| 1323, 4123, 1323, 4123 \| 1323, 4123, 1323, 4123 \| 1323, 4123, 1323, 4123 \| 1323, 1535, 1434, 1535 \| 1434, 2123, 4123, 4212 LH: 232, 1232, 4232, 1232 \| 4232, 1232, 4232, 1232 \| 4232, 1232, 4232, 1232 \| 4232, 1232, 1232, 1232 \| 1232, 5121, 5121, 5121 \| What speed are you planning to take the Presto? Best wishes, Matthew _________________________ "Passions, violent or not, may never be expressed to the point of revulsion; even in the most frightening situation music must never offend the ear but must even then offer enjoyment, i.e. must always remain music." -- W.A.Mozart 212cm Fazioli: some photos and recordings . Auckland Catholic Music Schola .
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#425253 - 12/07/04 06:58 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
signa 8000 Post Club Member Registered: 06/06/04 Posts: 8452 Loc: Ohio, USA	i just started to learn this one (although learned half way through before) and thought that this could be good for me to compare my fingering with others here. anyway, i just did the fingering over bar 28-33, let's see if this is any different from all yours: RH: 434 5323 1323 4212 \| 1434 5323 2434 5323 \| 5434 5323 1323 4212 \| 1434 5323 1323 4212 \| 1434 2545 1434 1545 \| 1545 3212 4212 3212 LH: 5 \| 232 1343 5343 1232 \| 4232 1343 5242 1343 \| 5232 1343 5343 1232 \| 4232 1343 2454 1343 \| 2121 5121 5121 5121
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#425254 - 12/07/04 08:44 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
Plwatcher Full Member Registered: 10/10/04 Posts: 171 Loc: Atlanta, GA	My ultimate speed for the Presto section is at least M.M. 150 or more. I am going to re-learn the Presto section with a better fingering. Perhaps then I will be better able to perform with more control.... Any tips as in i.e. finger exercises....
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#425255 - 12/08/04 09:09 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
JBryan 9000 Post Club Member Registered: 01/19/02 Posts: 9798 Loc: Oklahoma City	Choose a fingering and practice it sloooooowly. _________________________ Better to light one small candle than to curse the %&#$@#! darkness.
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#425256 - 12/09/04 11:29 PM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
brenthoven Full Member Registered: 11/01/04 Posts: 109 Loc: Alpine, WY	Signa's fingering is excellent. IF you play this in "time", I mean count it exactly to the beats you will discover that the piece will "hold together very nicely and practice it slowly keeping the fingers pads on the keys after one is depressed and not making BIG FINGER MOVEMENTS in other words "palm" the passages. Keep you fingers and hand hoovering over the keys ... This is a wonderful piece and the fugue No. 2 is one of the finest fugues Bach ever composed.
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#425257 - 12/10/04 02:47 AM Re: WTC Bach Prelude in C-Minor Fingering Question
andrewp Full Member Registered: 09/30/04 Posts: 494 Loc: united kingdom	This is a really useful discussion - I'm slaving over this passage myself at the moment. Slow practice works well but even so my hands are in prone to coming apart when building up even a little momentum - it's a bit hit-and-miss still. Another problem I have is with the last three groups of semiquavers in the penultimate bar in the right hand on the fingerings given above. I'm using the 1545 1434 1545 fingering given above but find it hard to keep this even given the relative weakness of my fingers 5 and 4. I tend to snatch at the 545 434 and 545 while my left is more solid here. Any tips for finger strngthening and coordination appreciated too!
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