Fixing First Finger Problems - FluteTips 166

Many of my new students in my private studio and even my college students come to me with a first finger problem. By first finger problem, I mean that they leave their first finger down for a D, and for an E flat.

Some students leave the first finger down only when they are coming down to these notes. On the way up to these notes, the first finger correctly stays up. Other students leave the first finger down all the time.

What’s the big deal, you ask? When you’re on the 4th line D, or the 4th space Eb, if your first finger is down, you are playing the wrong note. I don’t even have to be looking at you to hear that it is the wrong note. Shocking, I know! But I used to play these wrong notes too.

This is a problem that you can fix with the middle register exercise in Taffanel & Gaubert number 7.

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Fixing First Finger Problems
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